Through USAID, the US will give South Sudan an additional $95 million in humanitarian aid that is contributed by US citizens.
The news was released jointly by USAID Mission Director Kate Crawford and US Ambassador to South Sudan Michael J. Adler on Monday.
According to the statement, the financing would enable humanitarian partners, such as the World Food Programme (WFP), to continue providing vital food and nutrition assistance to over 700,000 people living in the nation’s most food-insecure regions.
The release states, “With this additional funding, the total amount of US government humanitarian assistance in South Sudan through USAID and the US Department of State is brought to date to more than $508 million in Fiscal Year 2024.”
At a crucial moment, when over seven million people in South Sudan were experiencing severe food insecurity, this help arrived. In addition, as the crisis escalated in April of last year, some 780,000 individuals have fled from Sudan to South Sudan. Arriving people were almost always underweight, insecure about their food, and had little or nothing.
In addition, flooding in South Sudan might have a negative impact on up to 3.3 million people in the upcoming months.
