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UN cuts food assistance to Sudan by 41 per cent as funds dwindle
Updated On: 10 September, 2023 07:50 AM IST | Juba | Agencies
The statement said that emergency food assistance will be prioritised for 3.2 million people who face the highest levels of food insecurity out of 7.76 million people in critical, emergency and catastrophic levels of need.
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Scenes of the feeding programme in famine-plagued Western Sudan shows a woman with a child. Pic/Getty Images
The UN agencies have said that funding shortfalls have forced them to scale down humanitarian response toward millions of vulnerable people in need of food and other life-saving assistance in South Sudan.
The UN agencies said in a joint statement issued in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, that dwindling resources amid growing needs have forced humanitarian agencies to prioritise the delivery of vital life-saving support, which risks leaving millions behind.
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