World Food Programme resumes direct deliveries of emergency food to South Sudan from Kenya
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Global Food and Nutrition Securitydate: 09/06/2020
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The nine-truck convoy, carrying 280 metric tons of food– enough to feed 20,000 people for a month—was loaded in Kenya’s port city of Mombasa and took three days to reach Kapoeta, east of South Sudan’s capital Juba. WFP had delivered millions of tons of relief cargo through the route before humanitarian deliveries were discontinued because of poor road conditions and insecurity.
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