South Sudanese Leaders With Opponents The People Are Starvation, WFP PBB Sends Assistance By Air

Illustration of WHO medical equipment assistance sent to countries hit by conflict. (X @WHOAfghanistan)

JAKARTA - The World Food Program or WFP of the United Nations sends food aid by dropping from the air to help tens of thousands of people in South Sudan who are bearing hunger are exacerbated by the increasing local conflict.

"This distribution marks the first WFP access in more than four months to provide life-saving food and nutrition assistance to more than 40,000 people... in the most remote areas of Nasir and Repeat, areas that can only be accessed by air," WFP wrote in a statement on its official website.

The eastern African country has experienced a drastic increase in violence since President Salva Kiir and his Vice President Riek Machar have been in open hostilities since March 2025.

The tension sparked fears that in the midst of society the full-scale return of civil war in the poor nation would return.

In the 2013-2018 period, the world's youngest country's civil war killed about 400,000 people.

More than 1 million people in Upper Nile state, South Sudan, were affected by the war which led to a food crisis and acute hunger.

WFP warns that this figure has the potential to triple since the president's open hostilities and vice presidents have flared up.

Conflict-conflict parties block main river routes that can be used for transportation as well as cost-effective routes for aid delivery to Upper Nile from the northern Jonglei state.

"Throughout South Sudan as many as 7.7 million people, or 57 percent of the total population, face "crisis, emergency, or disaster" hunger levels," the WFP statement continued.