Press Briefing with the WFP, UNICEF, WHO, ILO.
UN Geneva press briefing chaired by Rolando Gómez, Chief, Press and External Relations Section, UN Information Service. Emergency humanitarian response in South Sudan. Mutinta Chimuka, World Food Programme (WFP) Country Director for South Sudan, speaking from Bor, said she was currently enroute from Akobo East in Jonglei where the World Food Programme had had launched their emergency response three weeks ago. Since the beginning of the year, Akobo East had experienced relentless conflict, with 142,000 people displaced and 100,000 crossing into neighbouring Ethiopia. The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) update revealed parts of Akobo were encountering IPC 5 (Catastrophe), with the country at imminent risk of famine. Hundreds of thousands of people faced food insecurity with 12,000 currently in Phase 5. Particularly concerning was the sharp rise in malnutrition in chidlren under five and breastfeeding mothers. Despite insecurity, WFP continued to deliver vital...
