All over wartorn parts of Africa, displaced women are often exposed to many kinds of sexual violence. But a particularly patterned form of SGBV is the one done to women when they venture into forests to gather firewood either for domestic use or for sale. Regardless of the varied backgrounds and contexts surrounding the conflicts […]
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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has suspended its humanitarian food assistance in South Sudan due to a funding shortage. Adeyinka Badejo, Acting Country Director of the World Food Programme in South Sudan, said the “Organisation had exhausted all options before suspending food assistance, including halving rations in 2021”. “These latest reductions to assistance […]
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Cases of sexual violence against women and girls in areas of conflict in South Sudan have doubled, compared to cases recorded in 2021, the United Nation Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said in a report. Despite the 2018 peace deal between the warring factions to pledge a ceasefire and negotiate a power-sharing agreement to end […]
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The United Nations (UN) has condemned the attack on its convoy travelling to deliver food that would have fed 95,000 people in hard-to-reach areas in South Sudan. The UN mission in the country and the World Food Programme (WFP) reported that an inter-agency convoy of 59 trucks, carrying WFP food and nutrition assistance on Monday, […]
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Armed groups raided two food aid warehouses of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) that would have fed 23,000 people in two hard-to-reach areas in South Sudan, the aid organisation said, warning that the attacks came at a time humanitarian needs were increasingly in demand. Looters attacked the NRC warehouses in Mirmir and Padeah, Unity State, […]
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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has received a sum of $1.2 million from the Republic of Korea to support five vulnerable countries who suffer from conflict, natural disaster, and climate change to provide basic amenities and humanitarian activities. Nigeria, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, and South Sudan are the five vulnerable countries that will […]
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More than 200 Non-Governmental Organisations on Tuesday, April 20, appealed to governments across the globe to urgently increase aid to stop over 34 million people from being pushed to starvation this year. “Every day, we bear witness to suffering and resilience. In Yemen, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Burkina Faso, DRC, Honduras, Venezuela, Nigeria, Haiti, CAR, […]
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