Around 4.9 million people - more than 40 percent of the population - are urgently in need of food in South Sudan as parts of the country reel from the first famine declared globally in six years. Across vast swathes of parched land, communities displaced by conflict and food crisis are struggling to survive. In many instances it is mostly women and children left behind as men go off in search of new pastures for livestock to graze or become involved in armed conflict.
Child rights and humanitarian organisation Plan International is working in the Lakes State, Central Equatoria, Eastern Equatoria and Jonglei to provide life-saving food, nutrition and livelihood interventions including agricultural tools and fishing kits to stop children and women from dying of starvation or suffering malnutrition.
