Joint News Release - WFP/UNHCR: Refugees in South Sudan face extreme hunger as funds run out

Countries: South Sudan, Sudan Sources: UN High Commissioner for Refugees, World Food Programme JUBA, South Sudan – More than 650,000 refugees and asylum seekers in South Sudan risk losing further access to lifesaving food, nutrition and other assistance due to critical funding shortfalls, leaving families who fled war and hunger with nowhere else to turn, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today. Without immediate and urgent funding, the final