Acute food insecurity to hit most people in South Sudan next year, says UN

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Acute food insecurity to hit most people in South Sudan next year, says UN

Almost 7.7 million people will be classified as acutely food insecure in the world’s youngest nation as it grapples with floods and war.

A woman cooking a simple dinner of sorghum for her family at Batil's refugee camp, South Sudan. [Nichole Sobecki / MSF / AFP]
A woman cooks a simple dinner of sorghum for her family at the Yusif Batil refugee camp in South Sudan [Nichole Sobecki/MSF/AFP]

Source: Aljazeera, Published On 18 Nov 202418 Nov 2024

Almost 60 percent of South Sudan’s population will be acutely food insecure next year, with more than two million children at risk of malnutrition, warns data from a United Nations-backed review.

The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) review published on Monday estimated that starting in April, 57 percent of the population would be suffering from acute food insecurity, which the UN defines as when a “person’s inability to consume adequate food puts their lives or livelihoods in immediate danger”.