"Frightened" South Sudanese begging for food as the Ukrainian War ceases aid

Capoeta, South Sudan — Global leaders of the G7 Summit this week to combat food instability around the world Promised $ 4.5 billion. For the millions ofpeople in South Sudan who are on the verge of starvation, the help will not come immediately

CBS News Foreign The area where Deborah Patta, a human correspondent, was hit hardest. She arrived shortly after the first rainfall of 18 months. This is the reason for the celebration of making local children dance on the streets.

However, the green covers the drought-stricken village. In the surrounding farmland, the soil is extremely dry.

Nachopera Lomuria once lived in this land, but she told Patta that nothing would grow on the dry land anymore. Her mother died starving last year, and Romria is convinced she is next.

"If food doesn't come, I can't find myself alive the next time I visit," she said.

The UNWorld Food Programwas her only lifeline, but is now disconnected.

"I'm scared," she admitted. "Please continue to feed us."

Deputy President Adeyinka Badejo told CBS News that fuel and food costs rose during thewar in Ukraine. Said that in South Sudan, aid to nearly 2 million people had to be stopped. 121} 

"I have to take him from hunger to feed the hungry," she told Patta. There you are facing hunger.

There is a market in the town of Capoeta, but it takes a day for many locals to get there and there is a shortage of grain.

Napil Marco was on the market, but CBS News said she couldn't afford to eat because she didn't have food aid. Told.

"I heard they stopped helping because the whites were at war," she told Patta.

There is a lot of truth in that rumor. The market could not be far from Ukraine, but the blockade of Ukraine's Black Sea Port by Vladimir Putin had a direct impact on food costs in South Sudan. Ukraine has long been a major supplier of grain to the world, but its blockade prevented it from shipping those important foods to Africa and other parts of the world.

The crisis helped send the cost of a staple product that is almost 100% soaring in South Sudan.

"We don't have enough food because we don't have enough resources," WFP's Badejo told Patta. "The needs of South Sudan are very high. Three in four do not have enough food to eat. Three in four face a serious level of hunger, which is due to ongoing conflict. You have experienced an unprecedented flood for three years in South Sudan. You have the economic impact of the COVID-19 outbreak, and now we see the consequences of the war in Ukraine. "

Sophie Valentino is one of those who are in a pinch. 

"My main message to the world is to stop unnecessary wars and, if there is peace, allow the United Nations to concentrate on buying food to supply poor countries. Is to do it, "she said.

Her salary as a high school teacher hasn't been so high these days as prices in the market have doubled.

Romria, spoken by CBS News on the scorching farmland of her family, can even afford to dress her two children who ran. There is none. She is naked and around during her visit to Patta.

Her last food aid bag lasts only two weeks.    

"We just need food," she continued. "You have to help us ... tell them that we are hungry." 

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• Food emergency
• War
• Ukraine
• United Nations
• Hunger
• Vladimir Putin
• South Sudan