Humanitarian agencies allocated 600 million Dollars for roads and airstrips’ repair by February 2015 out of the 1.8 billion million Dollars they appealed for.
In a statement CRN obtained on Saturday Save the Children welcomed various governments’ and institutions’ pledges made in Nairobi, Kenya to avert humanitarian crisis in South Sudan to enable pre-positioning of supplies before the rainy season.
Save the Children South Sudan Director Peter Walsh expressed hope that the donor community would honor their commitment to help actors on the ground provide assistance.
United Nations predicted that the conflict would worsen in the dry season when military vehicles could move around more easily.
UN Humanitarian Chief Valerie Amos and UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation Forest Whitaker said over 2.5 million South Sudanese are on the brink of famine amid the destructive civil war in the country.