UN Food Aid Air Drops in South Sudan: A Partial Band-Aid on a Man-Made Crisis
The World Food Program’s emergency airdrops to starving South Sudanese families highlight the tragic consequences of unresolved conflict and international inaction—can America afford to overlook these lessons at home and abroad?
In a stark reminder that war always hits civilians hardest, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has begun emergency air drops of food aid to tens of thousands of desperate families in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State. This comes after months of blockade and relentless fighting have pushed entire communities to the brink of catastrophic hunger.The WFP's recent delivery marks their first access in over four months to the remote counties of Nasir and Ulang, areas unreachable by land or river due to ongoing hostilities. The agency aims to assist more than 40,000 individuals facing starvation in conditions described...
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