As the impact of the suspension of food supplies starts to take hold, charity workers have told the BBC that two children and an adult have perished in South Sudan from famine. The fatalities happened in a camp for displaced people in the northern Warrap state.
The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) previously announced that it has put rationing programs on hold in several areas of the nation owing to a lack of financing.
The organization said it required $426 million (£352 million) in June to keep providing food.
However, that assistance has not materialized as a result of the international community’s attention being diverted by other converging crises, such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
One of the youngsters, according to Sami Al Subaihi, a Médecins Sans Frontières employee at the camp, was only five years old.
