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World Food Programme resumes direct deliveries of emergency food to South Sudan from Kenya

JUBA – For the first time since 2018, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has managed to send a humanitarian convoy from Kenya directly into South Sudan via the Nadapal Border crossing just as hunger is peaking in the country.

date:  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.

Full text available here: https://www.wfp.org/news/world-food-programme-resumes-direct-deliveries-emergency-food-south-sudan-kenya