Responding to South Sudan's Hunger Crisis - Situation Report #10

World Vision continues to repond to a hunger crisis in South Sudan. Key concerns continue to be: 

• Children worst affected: South Sudan’s children are experiencing hunger and malnutrition caused by a protection crisis. Food insecurity rises wherever significant conflict occurs in the country. Over the past weeks, intra ethnic conflict has intensified in locations that were less prone to conflict in the past. These areas lack the capacity to establish resilience, creating a crisis for the children and families who live there.
  
  
• Country wide food insecurity rising: While famine is no longer declared in South Sudan, the overall food security crisis experienced across the country continues to deteriorate largely due to conflict. The number of people experiencing “severe” food insecurity has increased, reaching 6.0 million (50% of the population) in July. However, this number is likely higher, as conflict and insecurity continue.
  
  
• Need to scale-up response: Due to continued overwhelming need, activities carried out to prevent a further deterioration of the food security situation must be scaled up. Funding is urgently needed, particularly to prevent the reemergence of famine in at risk areas. The speed at which this is done is paramount considering operations during the rainy season are significantly more costly and challenging.
  
  
• Displacement: Currently there are roughly 1.9 million people internally displaced within South Sudan, and roughly 2 million seeking refuge in neighboring countries. This number is likely to rise if conflict in the eastern part of the Greater Upper Nile region continues. World Vision is calling on stakeholders to facilitate peace and security throughout the country and to allow urgent and unimpeded access to humanitarian and development actors in the country.
  
  
• Cholera: As at 20 August, 15,882 cases and 274 related deaths were reported in 2017. There is a general declining trend reported over the past three weeks with 10 counties reporting active cases, down from the total of 23 that have reported cases this year.

Details about World Vision's response programming and the number of people reached by downloading the Situation Report.