Updates

Juba, 19 August 2025: South Sudan remains one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a humanitarian worker, ranking as number two so far this year, according to Aid Worker Security Database...

1. The extraordinary inter-ministerial meeting on cholera convened on 7 July 2025 at the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, co-chaired by the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs...

Over 270,000 people affected by multiple shocks to receive life-saving, multi-sectoral assistance (Juba, 22 May 2025) Amid escalating humanitarian needs driven by conflict, flooding, acute food...

South Sudan | 2024 | CBPF South Sudan, Renk, elsewhere. “When conflict broke out in my hometown in Bentiu, South Sudan, in 2015, we lost everything. I struggled to get my family out of the country...

(Juba, 4 May 2025) The UN deplores an air strike on a hospital in Old Fangak, South Sudan early in the morning of 3 May. The UN Humanitarian Coordinator demands the protection of civilian lives and...

New York, 16 April 2025 As delivered Thank you, Mr. President. When I last briefed this Council on South Sudan in August 2024, I warned of a “perfect storm” of stressors – with humanitarian,...

(Malakal, 15 April 2025) The United Nations is deeply concerned by the rapidly escalating violence in South Sudan and reiterates its urgent call for the protection of the population and immediate,...

"The little we have must be protected so that urgent support for people most in need can be provided. Currently, 5.4 million people, over half of them children, require life-saving assistance."

(Juba, 18 December 2024) The Humanitarian Coordinator for South Sudan, Ms. Anita Kiki Gbeho, has released US$8 million from the South Sudan Humanitarian Fund to support the multisectoral response to...

The protracted crisis in South Sudan is deepened by conflict, extreme effects of climate change, disease outbreaks, economic crisis and the impact of the ongoing conflict in neighbouring Sudan.

(Juba, 12 September 2024) The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has allocated US$10 million to provide critical assistance to 700,000 people affected by severe flooding across...

THE HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN SOUTH SUDAN South Sudan is facing a growing humanitarian crisis. Approximately 9 million people, or three out of four of the country’s population of 12.4 million, need...

(Juba, 19 August 2024) South Sudan remains one of the most perilous environments for humanitarian workers in 2024, with 24 attacks on aid workers recorded so far this year. Access constraints across...

New York, 14 August 2024 As delivered Mr. President, members of the Security Council, Thank you for the opportunity to update you on the humanitarian situation in South Sudan, and as raised by SRSG...

The first standard allocation of the year comes at a critical time to avert a further deterioration of living conditions for the people benefitting from the support.

South Sudan | 2023 | CBPF South Sudan, Fangak County. Dak Biliu lives in Kuerkan village, South Sudan, where, like most of the population, people are dealing with a complex humanitarian crisis driven...

More than 60,000 people have been affected after the UN was forced to pause airdrops of food assistance. This number will increase to 145,000 by the end of May, should the measures remain in place.

South Sudan | 2023 | CBPF South Sudan, Twic East. Devastating floods back in 2021 forced Clara*, her husband and four children to flee, leaving everything behind. Clara was overwhelmed by the...

Joint statement by Reena Ghelani, UN Famine Prevention and Response Coordinator, and Marie Helene Verney, Acting Humanitarian Coordinator (Juba, 11 December 2023) The world needs to pay attention to...

Women and children in South Sudan are experiencing a protection crisis. Prolonged conflict, insecurity and climate change profoundly affect vulnerable people, and high levels of gender-based violence...