Where Is The World: South Sudan Cries For More Food Aid

 WFP official says more food and aid desperately needed to feed thousands in South Sudan.

Speaking in Rome, Valerie Guarnieri, WFP's East and Central Africa Regional Director, said the organisation had begun providing food for displaced people within days of the outbreak of fighting.

She estimated that the WFP has assisted at least 100-thousand people since mid-December.

 

However, she warned that relief efforts are complicated by difficulties accessing some areas, as well as by looting of food from some compounds and warehouses.

The WFP says it has pre-positioned food stocks at nearly 100 sites around the country but estimates that 10 percent of its food in the country has been looted - enough to feed some 180,000 people for a month.

Guarnieri also said the WFP has access to people living near the United Nations Mission in South Sudan bases "but there are very few places outside those areas in the conflict-affected states that we have been able to access."

The conflict in South Sudan - the world's newest country - has forced at least 200,000 people to flee their homes in search of safety, the WFP estimates.

Source: dailytelegraph