Uganda Refugee Response - South Sudan Situation (18 December 2017)

“As the lean season begins, women and girls are already reporting eating wild plants to survive, with some going days without anything to eat. We are already seeing an increase in malnutrition."

The number of cases of children under five years with severe acute malnutrition has seen a 350% increase since 2013. Extreme levels of food insecurity are expected to continue in 2017.

More than 100,000 people who have fled violence in Sudan’s Blue Nile State are struggling to survive in an inhospitable stretch of land in South Sudan, where infrastructure, health care resources, and water capacity are extremely limited, and where they are now wholly dependent on humanitarian...