JUBA — The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) has started airdropping food aid to remote areas of South Sudan that are unreachable because of insecurity "and other obstacles," including the onset of ...

GENEVA — The World Food Program warns fighting and lack of access to the displaced in South Sudan are pushing that country towards a hunger catastrophe. WFP says this humanitarian disaster still ...

JUBA, South Sudan – Officials from a United Nations food agency air-dropped 32 metric tons of food to refugees on the South Sudan-Sudan border, an expensive, last-ditch way to get food to tens ...

Macroeconomic instability, conflict, and flooding are expected to worsen food insecurity in South Sudan, already ...

At crowded transit camps in South Sudan, where almost 600,000 people have fled from Sudan, “families arrive hungry and are met with more hunger,” said the WFP. One in five children crossing ...

South Sudan has faced a decade of civil war and years of poverty. CBS News foreign correspondent Chris Livesay reports from Juba, South Sudan, with the latest on the pope's mission. Feb 3, 2023 ...

More than 70 percent of South Sudan’s population will face extreme hunger this year as conflict and climate-related disasters deepen food scarcity, the UN’s World Food Program (WFP) warned Friday.

Yet a funding shortfall means WFP can only provide half-rations to South Sudan's hungriest people - and prioritize those facing the highest levels of food insecurity. This year's funding outlook ...

The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday it had suspended operations in two states in South Sudan because of insecurity, deepening the region's crisis ahead of its independence in July.

WFP provides new arrivals in South Sudan fortified biscuits or hot meals, a one-time food or cash ration, and nutrition support for children and mothers at border areas.

David Muir and his team traveled to South Sudan to report on another front line of the climate crisis, with more than 1 million people now facing severe food insecurity due to the worst floods ...

With investment and security south Sudan could become a food exporter and end its chronic food dependency within a decade, the U.N. World Food Program said Wednesday.