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Some 794,000 Sudanese and South Sudanese returnees fleeing conflict in Sudan are facing hunger and disease in South Sudan, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.
Quoting a report by Save the Children organisation, OCHA said these include an estimated 476,000 children who fled to South Sudan since conflict escalated in April 2023, with one in five children screened at the Renk border found to be malnourished.
The refugees face difficult situation as humanitarian funding dries up, food rations are squeezed, and the cost of food soars, the agency said.
Recent funding shortfalls, as well as pressures caused by the increasing number of new arrivals, have affected the food rations and cash provided to the refugees by the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), it said.
Save the Children organization has urged the international community to fully fund the UN’s 2024 humanitarian response plan for South Sudan and UN’s humanitarian response plan for Sudan.
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