Danish Refugee Council (South Sudan)

DRC has been present in South Sudan since 2005, implementing projects in Upper Nile, Unity, Jonglei, Western Bahr el Ghazal and Eastern Equatoria states. South Sudan represents the largest refugee crisis in Africa, with over 2.3 million refugees and asylum seekers hosted in Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and, to a lesser extent, DR Congo. South Sudan faces high levels of internal displacement, with 2.2 million internally displaced persons as of 30 September 2022.

South Sudan has faced three subsequent years of above-average flooding in areas along the Nile and Loi rivers, causing some areas of Jonglei, Unity and Upper Niles states to be continuously submerged. Facing floods and the subsequent loss of their livelihoods and damage to their properties, thousands of people have been forced to move.

Between April and July 2022, more than 62 percent of the population faced crisis levels of food insecurity. Some of them are at emergency levels, which requires external support to ensure families don’t have to skip meals or go days without food.

People are also being displaced by conflict, such as the violence in Abyei Administrative Area in early 2022. Past and ongoing violence has led to a high circulation of illicit small arms and light weapons, as well as contamination of mines and cluster munitions – all of them posing a risk to the population’s security.

In addition, South Sudan is a dangerous environment for humanitarian actors, with 144 security incidents and 8 humanitarian staff reported killed during the first half of 2022. This limits the ability to deliver humanitarian support to vulnerable people in an unimpeded manner.