UN Security Council
2022

Reiterating its alarm about the dire humanitarian situation, the high levels of food insecurity in the country and likely famine in some areas, including an estimated 8.3 million people facing severe food insecurity according to the World Food Programme, recalling its resolution 2417 (2018) that recognizes the need to break the vicious cycle between armed conflict and food insecurity, condemning attacks on the means of livelihood and intentional denial of access to food, which could amount to war crimes, further condemning the obstructions by all parties to civilians’ movement and to humanitarian actors’ movement to reach civilians in need of assi stance, expressing grave concern at the imposition of taxes and illegal fees which hamper the delivery of humanitarian assistance across the country, noting with concern reports that forced displacement and denial of humanitarian access is exacerbating food insecurity for the civilian population, Expressing serious and urgent concern over the nearly 2 million displaced persons and ongoing humanitarian crisis, 8.4 million in need of humanitarian assistance according to the 2022 South Sudan Humanitarian Needs Overview, and the