Food Crisis and Civil War in South Sudan.
One-third of South Sudan’s 13 million people don’t know where their next meal will come from.
Help TodayInternational Medical Corps has been working in South Sudan since the mid-1990s, nearly 20 years before a national referendum in 2011 led the southern-most states of Sudan becoming an independent South Sudan later that same year.
Despite repeated diplomatic efforts to end South Sudan’s crippling civil war, there has been no let-up in the violence and humanitarian conditions in the country continue to deteriorate. Civilians continue to be subject to violence, displacement and egregious human rights violations. Attacks on humanitarian workers and health care workers in general are also on the increase. Hostility levels are high and tension in the country continues to grow as confidence ebbs that a meaningful peace can be found. As a direct result of the war, millions of people are at-risk of starvation. Only international humanitarian assistance prevents widespread famine.