September 10, 2024 (RENK) – 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, Save the Children said the country’s ongoing war shows no sign of an end. According to the aid agency, nearly 800,000 refugees and South Sudanese returnees, including 476,000 children have fled Sudan since the conflict escalated in April 2023 with one in five children screened at the Renk border found to be malnourished. This is in addition to over 290,000 Sudanese refugees who fled to South Sudan in previous years. Save the Children, however, expressed concerns that recent shortfalls in funding have impacted on the capacity of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to provides food rations. Since 2022, refugees in South Sudan only receive half of what WFP considers a full food ration. The conflict has equally disrupted peoples’ sources of livelihood, leaving them to rely on food aid. The scale back is the result of ongoing funding constraints and pressures caused by the increasing number of new arrivals in the camps, a major concern since the start of Sudan’s conflict, it noted. One camp …

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