Amid escalating humanitarian needs driven by conflict, flooding, acute food insecurity and cholera outbreaks, the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has urgently allocated US$10 million to support life-saving humanitarian assistance for more than 270,000 people in South Sudan.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has reached more than 6,000 vulnerable mothers and children in flood-affected Bentiu, Unity State, with lifesaving nutrition assistance, thanks to generous funding from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief).
The deployment of armed Ugandan soldiers and military equipment to South Sudan since 11 March 2025 flagrantly violates the arms embargo, Amnesty International said today, ahead of this month’s UN Security Council vote on the embargo’s renewal.
The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the deliberate bombing of its hospital in Old Fangak, South Sudan early this morning.
The Food Security and Nutrition Monitoring System (FSNMS) is a nationwide inter-agency assessment exercise established to monitor key Food Security and Nutrition indicators at household and individual levels with the goal of informing humanitarian response in South Sudan
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is deeply concerned by reports of clashes between the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces and Sudan People’s Liberation Army-in Opposition in Morobo and Yei counties, Central Equatoria State, which have led to civilian displacement and casualties.
At least 110,000* severely acutely malnourished children supported by Save the Children in 10 countries could be left without access to life-saving ready-to-use emergency food and nutrition programmes as aid cuts hit supplies in coming months, according to a Save the Children analysis.
Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) and its partners are witnessing an alarming rise in humanitarian needs and protection risks—particularly for children, returnees, and internally displaced people (IDPs). Urgent, coordinated action is required from international partners to support lifesaving humanitarian operations and help restore peace and dignity to millions of affected civilians.
The international community must act urgently to end the conflict which is driving the world’s largest humanitarian crisis in Sudan, and provide the funding needed to respond to the escalating humanitarian needs.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) and World Health Organization (WHO) have signed the health systems strengthening output agreement component of the Health Sector Transformation Project (HSTP) today, ushering in a new era of strengthened healthcare across the country.
New data by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has revealed that local communities in South Sudan are struggling to effectively integrate people fleeing the devastating war in Sudan – including Sudanese refugees and South Sudanese returnees – two years on.
For the first in over a decade, the government is deploying judges, prosecutors, and investigators to Leer County in Unity State to deliver formal justice through a mobile court from 15 April to 9 May 2025.
Facing the worst cholera outbreak in two decades, South Sudanese are decrying the lack of concrete action and expressing concern over a looming worsening of the crisis during the rainy season.
Since February, airstrikes and violent clashes have displaced an estimated 80,000 people in Nasir, Ulang and Longochuk counties. Approximately 23,000 have fled into parts of Gambella region, Ethiopia. Many others wait in displacement sites along the Sobat River.
WFP is working to scale up assistance in Sudan for 7 million people by mid-year in Sudan. In Libya, in February, WFP distributed food assistance to 4,285 individuals and reached 342 children under five and 125 pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls.
As the situation in South Sudan continues to deteriorate, War Child is gravely concerned for the 5.4 million children and youth in South Sudan who face a growing threat of violence and recruitment to armed groups.
In March 2025, IOM's Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) conducted an intention survey within the Bentiu IDP Camp as part of its regular population count.
In March 2024, the International Organization for Migration's (IOM) Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) team conducted Housing, Land and Property (HLP) revalidation survey in Naivasha IDP camp hosting a total of 1,316 households (5,371 individuals).
South Sudan is currently facing a severe humanitarian crisis characterized by extensive internal displacement. The underlying causes of these displacement dynamics are varied and include communal clashes, land disputes, insecurity, violence, natural disasters, and cross-border movements.
