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From labour hunt to entrepreneurship: UNICEF’s Cash Plus transforms lives
According to the 2024 Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), nearly 2.04 million children in South Sudan are at risk of malnutrition in 2025 — an increase from 1.65 million in 2024. Many children relapse and return to the nutrition service because of various factors including household food insecuri...
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Nutrition Advocacy Brief 2025
Malnutrition among South Sudanese children under five, as well as pregnant and breastfeeding women, remains a critical public health concern. The Food Security and Nutrition Monitoring Survey (FSNMS) conducted in October 2024, along with other SMARTsurveys from 2024, indicate that 2.08 million children under five ...
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Hunger crisis deepens in South Sudan with returnees fleeing war and children hit hardest.
Juba, – Alarming new food security data from South Sudan shows that 57 per cent of the population will be acutely food insecure through the 2025 lean season with returnees fleeing the war in Sudan and young children facing some of the highest levels of hunger and malnutrition as economic pressures, climate extreme...
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Child Food Poverty
Across the world, millions of parents and families are struggling to provide nutritious and diverse foods that young children need to reach their full potential. Growing inequities, conflict, and climate crises, combined with rising food prices, the overabundance of unhealthy foods, harmful food marketing strategi...
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A journey of resilience and determination
As part of UNICEF Young Reporters’ advocacy efforts, two of them, Grace Gamboripai and Wisdom Wieu, travelled recently to Aweil, South Sudan, to learn about the issue of malnutrition in the region. Our experiences were eye-opening, and we were struck by the challenges that mothers, community nutrition volunteers, ...
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Cash transfers improve livelihoods for children and mothers in Aweil East
A mother and restaurant owner, Young mother, Akiir Lual, is a recent recipient of a cash transfer pilot project in Aweil, Northern Bahr El Ghazal State in Northwestern South Sudan. As a breastfeeding mother, her two-year-old girl was suffering from malnutrition for almost a year and referred for treatment at a nea...
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Community nutrition volunteers lead prevention initiatives to tackle malnutrition in South Sudan
Given the limited access many mothers have to health and nutrition services in South Sudan, community nutrition volunteers (CNVs) have become a critical community level condiuts to prevent and treat malnutrition among children and mothers. With years of experience working for humanitarian organisations, Amou Madh...
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Kamisa and Yumjima’s journey of struggle and resilience
Amidst the continuing devasting violence raging across Sudan, waves of South Sudanese return across the borders to their home country. This is the story of Kamisa, a 1-year-old baby, and her mother who faced unimaginable challenges as they joined the almost 200,000 others who have fled the war into South Sudan sin...
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The desperate faces of children fleeing conflict in Sudan
Severely malnourished, Chinhial Gathok, fled the fighting in Khartoum with her South Sudanese mother, father and sibling, and arrived in Renk County, Upper Nile State, bordering Sudan. The three-day journey from Sudan to Renk further deteriorated her fragile health. Chinhail was screened at the transit site and s...
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Mother-to-mother support groups help to prevent malnutrition in South Sudan
Bentiu, South Sudan -, It's a clear morning at the Bieh IDP site in South Sudan's Bentiu town, Unity state. The bright sun is not yet high in the sky, and it's a regular day for many, so the roads to the IDP site is busier than usual and the Bieh Nutrition Center is a buzz with many voices. Amongst the group is a ...
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Racing to save Wilson
Nurse Betty leaves the busy and dusty streets of Juba behind her and steps through the archway of Al-Sabbah, the only children’s hospital in the city. For the past three decades, Betty has dedicated her life to supporting malnourished children and comforting anxious parents. Two-year-old Wilson with Father Angelo ...
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A life-saving peanut paste for little Alfred
Eric Alain Ategbo knows his way around the Lologo Nutrition Centre on the outskirts of Juba. As Chief of Nutrition for UNICEF South Sudan, he has been here many times, and seen countless children so weak and malnourished, they can barely keep their heads up. This year, a staggering 1.4 million children will suffe...