South Sudan - Crisis Fact Sheet #4, Fiscal Year (FY) 2020

Humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including USAID partners, face increasing bureaucratic impediments—primarily hiring interference and arbitrary taxation—to relief efforts across ......

 

Humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including USAID partners, face increasing bureaucratic impediments—primarily hiring interference and arbitrary taxation—to relief efforts across South Sudan from both state and non-state actors, delaying assistance delivery to populations in need, relief actors report. NGOs and UN agencies continue to advocate unimpeded access for aid operations and emphasize relief organizations’ right to halt humanitarian programming due to harassment and unsafe operating conditions.