South Sudan’s innocent children deserve peace, not starvation
Orphans and children separated from their parents in Kadugli gather to eat boiled leaves at an IDP Camp within the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) controlled area in Boram County, Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan June 22, 2024.
As tensions in South Sudan escalate, the humanitarian catastrophe is taking a turn for the worse. This week, relief agencies were reporting that fighting along the Nile River had blocked vital humanitarian aid from reaching more than 60,000 malnourished children in Upper Nile State—a region long pushed to the brink by poverty, conflict, and neglect. The latest escalation of violence threatens to tip an already fragile situation into tragedy.
According to the United Nations World Food Programme and Unicef, essential nutrition supplies will run out by the end of May if aid deliveries remain obstructed.
