Funding of €600,000 was today announced for emergency food relief in Sudan.
The funding will be channelled through the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP), which is managing emergency food distribution across many of Sudan’s poorest communities.
Minister of State for Overseas Development,Peter Power said poor rainfall levels in Southern Sudan have caused crop failure and left as many as 1.5 million people extremely vulnerable to food shortages.
"We know that as many as one in six people in this region are acutely malnourished and 130,000 people have been forced to leave their homes as a result of ongoing conflict," he added.
The latest funding brings to more than €10.7 million the total aid assistance provided by the Government to Sudan in the last year.
