United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs or OCHA said more than one million people in South Sudan were forced out from their homes by the ongoing fighting and conditions continue to worsen.
The Office on Friday reported that more than 800 thousand were displaced inside South Sudan, while 255 thousand fled to Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Sudan.
It said the government and the opposition forces violated the January ceasefire as fighting continues in Jonglei, Unity and Upper Nile states, where towns and rural areas were destroyed.
OCHA said the conflict caused a “serious deterioration in the food security situation” with some 3.7 million people at high risk.
It estimated that five million people need aid with increasingly difficult to be reached by road due to looming heavy rains.
OCHA pointed out that huge warehouses of food stored for the rainy season before the fighting broke out, were looted.