News Monitor

More than 20,000 Sudanese crossed into South Sudan last week – tripling the number of daily arrivals on previous weeks. Since Saturday, there have been an additional 7,000–10,000 new arrivals daily.

Since the first suspected case was reported on 5 November, the number of people affected has risen significantly, placing an immense strain on the limited response to date.

Data shows 57% of the population will be acutely food insecure through the 2025 lean season as economic pressures, climate extremes, and the effects of Sudan's war drive worsening hunger.

The 1954 Convention regulates the status of stateless people and ensures their access to fundamental rights, while the 1961 Convention offers carefully detailed safeguards to prevent statelessness.

The influx of people arriving in overcrowded conditions with limited access to clean water and sanitation has amplified the risk of cholera transmission in both transit centers and host communities.

WFP is urgently appealing to donors to provide early funding for next year’s operations so the food agency can preposition food to prevent spiralling operational costs and hunger through 2025.

Unprecedented flooding has affected more than 81,300 people and displaced 46,500 people in the state. These numbers continue to rise and put vulnerable people at risk of diseases such as cholera.

The floods have affected 42 of South Sudan's 78 counties. Fifty-eight health facilities have been submerged in five counties and nearly 90 others are inaccessible, with about 15 main roads cut off.

South Sudan is now hosting more than half a million refugees across 30 locations, mainly in refugee camps in Maban, Jamjang, Wedweil, and Gorom. This figure has almost doubled since 2023.

Refugees fleeing conflict in Sudan are facing hunger and disease in South Sudan as humanitarian funding dries up, food rations are squeezed, and the cost of food soars.

In the Abyei Administrative Area, heavy rains have significantly disrupted the main supply route in southern Abyei, obstructing humanitarian access and delaying deliveries.

Further anticipated flooding will likely exacerbate existing vulnerabilities, especially in remote communities with significant access constraints to humanitarian aid.

The likely increase in rainfall in 2024 is very concerning given the number of people at risk in flood-prone areas, threats to WASH and the risk of water- and vector-borne disease transmission - MSF.

Save the Children is urgently finalising its flood anticipatory and response plan, prepping communities and prioritising the most vulnerable high-risk locations.

A major flood is predicted later this year, as humanitarian actors plan for a scenario in which more than three million people are affected and 2.4 million are in need of humanitarian assistance.

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.

"We need to ... shift from responding to crises after they occur to more proactive approaches, prevention and resilience building to help vulnerable communities cope with upcoming shocks" - FAO chief.

“We have a cohort of more than 600 patients co-infected with tuberculosis and HIV, and many of them tell us that they can no longer follow the treatment properly because of the lack of food,” - MSF team leader.

Uganda hosts the most refugees and asylum-seekers in Africa, with almost 1.7 million people mainly from South Sudan and DRC, yet it was among UNHCR’s 13 top underfunded operations in 2023.