Food insecurity has heightened to extreme lengths in South Sudan following their independence in 2011. 11 years later 75% of the population and 8.3 million people face food insecurity owing to reasons like poor harvests, economic crisis, and internal conflicts and now the United Nations World Food Programme warns the war between Russia and Ukraine will drain the young nation a notch lower. This leads to a prediction of this number doubling by September if no interventions are made.
Farmers, in an earlier interview, said that the government which has been cut off from billions of dollars in international financing did not manage to buy their wheat as promised. This is following a coup in October which consequently means there is no money for them to fund their new crop. The war has not spared them either and migration has also led to poor harvests as agricultural lands have also been deserted.
