Since independence in 2011, South Sudan has faced repeated conflicts, hosted more than one million Sudanese refugees and endured worsening economic and climate pressures.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has stated that 7.8 million people in South Sudan, more than half of the population, struggle to find food every day. It warned that without additional resources, more than one million people could lose access to food and nutritional assistance by October.