The UN’s Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, has allocated $12 million from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund to support people amid displacement and food insecurity triggered by conflict in South Sudan.
Farhan Haq, the deputy spokesman for Guterres, on Wednesday, while briefing the media in New York, said the new funds will enable the UN and its humanitarian partners to provide food, healthcare, drinking water, and shelter, among other life-saving assistance to 200,000 people in Akobo County and other parts of Jonglei State, as well as Upper Nile State and other priority locations.
“The humanitarian situation in Akobo County has recently deteriorated following an escalation of fighting,” he said. “More than 200,000 people have fled their homes, while food insecurity continues to climb. Some 12,000 people in Akobo are already facing the most extreme hunger and malnutrition.”
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