ACT efforts are currently concentrated in the Yirol and Rumbek counties, where, in addition to the local population, there are 69,000 internally displaced people. This refugee group is particularly at risk. According to ACT, many of them are already so weak that the food must be brought directly to them, as they can no longer walk to the distribution centers. Aid workers also report clear and widespread signs of malnutrition in the villages. The drought and renewed fighting in southern Sudan have drastically limited every kind of trade, according to an ACT press release.
Many people have only wild fruit, leaves and roots to live on.
ACT members are currently monitoring reports of hunger in the otherwise inaccessible Nuba Mountains. Browse month . . .