{"id":5599,"date":"2024-12-23T13:04:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T13:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/?p=5599"},"modified":"2024-12-23T13:04:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T13:04:15","slug":"south-sudan-humanitarian-crisis-thousands-of-displaced-people-face-starvation-and-access-barriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/south-sudan-humanitarian-crisis-thousands-of-displaced-people-face-starvation-and-access-barriers\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan Humanitarian Crisis: Thousands of Displaced People Face Starvation and Access Barriers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><em>Following the floods, nearly 70,000 people who have migrated to the Jonglei Canal are dependent on aid. However, the area&#8217;s isolation makes it difficult to distribute assistance, according to the World Food Programme (WFP).<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>Many South Sudanese, including those in Gorwai, have been forced to flee their flood-ravaged villages. Having lost their land and livestock, these displaced people now rely on humanitarian aid to survive.<\/p>\n<p>The World Food Programme (WFP) estimates that nearly 70,000 people living along the Jonglei Canal are dependent on this aid.<\/p>\n<p>However, access to the area is extremely difficult due to its isolation, making the delivery of food by airdrop necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Aid workers face several obstacles, including the halving of food rations due to a lack of funding and a challenging economic context.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of adequate infrastructure further complicates the distribution of aid. Since gaining independence in 2011, South Sudan has been plagued by civil war, which began in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the floods, nearly 70,000 people who have migrated to the Jonglei Canal are dependent on aid. However, the area&#8217;s isolation makes it difficult to distribute assistance, according to the World Food Programme (WFP). Many South Sudanese, including those in Gorwai, have been forced to flee their flood-ravaged villages. Having lost their land and livestock, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,503],"tags":[1376,1374,1375,1330,123],"class_list":["post-5599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-latest-news","tag-access-barriers","tag-displaced-people","tag-famine","tag-humanitarian-crisis","tag-south-sudan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5601,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions\/5601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}