South Sudan

Crisis in South Sudan

While the signing of a peace agreement in September 2018 formally put an end to the conflict in South Sudan, the humanitarian situation remains dire.

The multidimensional crisis is characterized by continued violence, severe food and nutrition insecurity, economic upheaval and disease outbreaks.

Over 4.5 million people have been uprooted, including 2 million people who are internally displaced and 2.5 million people who have taken refuge in neighbouring countries.

UNICEF appeal

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Situation reports

 
Briefing notes

In South Sudan, teenage girls struggle to break chains of conflict

 
 
When three armed men forced Mary* and her sister off a narrow road in South Sudan, the terrified 12-year-old started sobbing. But she had to dry her tears when the rebels threatened to kill her if she did not stop crying.

 
Now 16 and free, Mary remembers the day-long march that brought her to the rebels’ camp where she would spend the next three years, living in fear of brutal beatings and enemy attacks that sent bullets flying through the air.

Recent stories

Achieving humanitarian goals together

 
Malnutrition remains a threat to the survival of children in South Sudan

 
The three-month challenge

 
An Ebola survivor’s mission to prevent an outbreak

 

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Largest joint-United Nations programme on education to reach tens of thousands of children in South Sudan thanks to European Union funds

 
 

 
 

 
26 March 2019 – Tens of thousands of school children in some of South Sudan’s most food insecure areas will benefit from a new European Union (EU) funded education in emergencies programme launched today in Aweil.
 

The contribution, worth €24.4 million, will provide hot daily meals to 75,000 school children, help train some 1,600 teachers, equip learners with educational supplies and provide psychosocial support services for 40,000 children who are currently enrolled in schools and those out of school.
 

Press releases

Increasing number of people face severe food shortages in South Sudan

 
More than 3,000 children released from armed groups in South Sudan since conflict began, but thousands more continue to be used

 
15,000 children without parents or missing, five years after outbreak of fighting in South Sudan

 

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