Updates

(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...

(Juba, 11 June 2024) The Humanitarian Coordinator for South Sudan, Ms. Anita Kiki Gbeho today released US$20 million from the South Sudan Humanitarian Fund (SSHF) to provide life-saving assistance to...

(Juba, 28 April 2024) Humanitarian partners in South Sudan call for the urgent removal of recently imposed taxes and charges. More than 60,000 people have already been affected after the United...

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...

(Juba, 28 November 2023) The humanitarian community in South Sudan today released the 2024 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP). In launching of the 2024 HNRP, the Acting Humanitarian...

(Juba, 10 November 2023) I condemn in strongest terms the latest attack targeting humanitarians on 6 November, when a South Sudanese national aid worker contracted by an international nongovernmental...

Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people fleeing the Sudan conflict in need of humanitarian assistance at South Sudan’s borders (Juba, 16 October 2023) Six months since the outbreak of the conflict...

(Juba, 6 September 2023) Dwindling resources amidst growing needs have forced humanitarian agencies to prioritize the delivery of vital life-saving support which risks leaving millions behind, the...

(Juba, 17 August 2023) With 40 attacks on aid workers so far this year, South Sudan has recorded the highest number of attacks against aid workers, according to the 2023 Aid Worker Security Report...

(Juba, 26 July 2023) The humanitarian community in South Sudan is calling for urgent funding to ensure continued support for onward transportation for people fleeing the Sudan conflict to South...

Over 150,000 people affected by the conflict in Sudan will receive humanitarian support (Juba, 06 July 2023) The Humanitarian Coordinator ad interim (a.i.) for South Sudan, Mr. Peter Van der...

Nepal, Niger and South Sudan are all vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Nepal’s annual monsoon is becoming more and more erratic; last year’s floods in South Sudan reached levels not seen...

South Sudan Since the outbreak of fighting in Sudan on April 15, more than 115,000 individuals have crossed the border from Sudan into South Sudan. The majority of those crossing the border are South...

The escalating violence against humanitarians and looting of humanitarian supplies leaves countless people without access to life-saving support (Juba, 24 May 2023) The Humanitarian Coordinator ad...

(Juba, 4 May 2023) Today, Mr. Peter Van der Auweraert, the Humanitarian Coordinator ad interim (a.i.), Ms. MarieHelene Verney, the Country Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for...

(Juba, 2 May 2023) The Humanitarian Coordinator ad interim in South Sudan and the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Risk Management led a senior humanitarian country team and...