The United States will provide an additional $95 million in humanitarian assistance to South Sudan provided by the American people through USAID.
US Ambassador to South Sudan Michael J. Adler and USAID Mission Director Kate Crawford made the announcement in a joint press statement on Monday.
The statement said the funding would provide life-saving support to humanitarian partners, including WFP, to continue to deliver critical food and nutrition assistance to more than 700,000 people in the most food-insecure areas of the country.
“This additional funding brings the total US government humanitarian assistance in South Sudan, through USAID and the US Department of State, to more than $508 million to date in Fiscal Year 2024,” the statement reads.
This assistance arrived at a critical time when more than seven million people in South Sudan were facing high levels of acute food insecurity. In addition, nearly 780,000 people have fled from Sudan to South Sudan since the escalation of conflict in April of last year. Those arriving were invariably food-insecure, malnourished, and with few to no possessions.
Further, as many as 3.3 million people may be adversely affected by flooding across South Sudan in the coming months.