By William Madouk<\/p>\n
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The United States of America through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has donated an extra $100M to help in the fight against hunger.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n This brings the total U.S. government humanitarian assistance to South Sudan to nearly $609 million in Fiscal Year 2024.<\/p>\n In a statement issued yesterday,<\/p>\n The announcement came after the visit by USAID\u2019s Assistant to the Administrator for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), Sonali Korde to South Sudan.<\/p>\n During her stay from September 9-11, Korde visited key humanitarian project sites.<\/p>\n She also met with senior officials, diplomatic missions, the leadership of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), and implementing partners.<\/p>\n Korde announced an additional $100 million in U.S. government humanitarian food assistance for the South Sudanese people.<\/p>\n \u201cThis additional life-saving humanitarian assistance \u2013 made possible through a partnership between USAID and the U.S. Department of Agriculture,\u201d the statement read in part.<\/p>\n \u201c \u2013 will provide nearly 42,000 metric tons of assistance to approximately one million people experiencing acute food insecurity,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n According to the US, ending the humanitarian crisis in South Sudan requires urgent action, adding South Sudan government must clearly allocate public revenue for humanitarian response.<\/p>\n \u201cThis includes the transitional government doing its part and transparently allocating the use of public revenue for humanitarian response and to address other basic public needs,\u201d it noted.<\/p>\n South Sudan is being termed as one of the world\u2019s most dangerous countries for humanitarian aid workers, according to aid agencies.<\/p>\n The U.S. government also called on the transitional government to address the unacceptably high safety and security risks faced by UN agencies, NGO partners, and local communities.<\/p>\n \u201cPeace is a critical element in preventing increased humanitarian crisis.\u00a0 The Embassy welcomes the Tumaini Initiative talks in Nairobi and urges all signatories to the 2018 peace agreement as well as non-signatories to take advantage of this opportunity to advance peace,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is also essential that interparty direct talks take place at the leadership level in Juba as well.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By William Madouk The United States of America through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has donated an extra $100M to help in the fight against hunger. This brings the total U.S. government humanitarian assistance to South Sudan to nearly $609 million in Fiscal Year 2024. In[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28545,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28543\/revisions\/28545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}