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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
By Waakhe Simon Wudu

Two thirds of South Sudan population risk severe hunger in 2023 - U.N

An aerial view from a from a United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) Mi-8MTV-1 helicopter shows a section of Leer town in Unity State, South Sudan in this photo released November 3, 2022. World Food Programme/Handout via REUTERS

Up to 7.8 million people in South Sudan, two thirds of the population, may face severe food shortages during next year's April-to-July lean season due to floods, drought and conflict, United Nations agencies said on Thursday.

The shortages are worse than at the height of a civil war in 2013 and 2016, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the U.N. Children's Fund UNICEF and the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said.

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