Caritas Internationalis and its local counterparts in their recent meeting in Rome, Italy agreed to launch a humanitarian appeal to support South Sudan in facing hunger.
President of Caritas South Sudan, Bishop Erkolano Lodu Tombe, says he and some senior officials from the charity organization, met in Rome on Tuesday to discuss the operational challenges.
He says they also talked about ways to scale up the global Catholic aid urgent response to the nation where famine was declared.
Bishop Lodu says the issue of humanitarian need in South Sudan is required for all the people of South Sudan, not only conflict affected communities because hunger is everywhere.
He observes a very terrible economic crisis in the country as people cannot get money.
Bishop Lodu asks the government to discipline its soldiers to end the ongoing war.
He also appeals to the armed opposition to come to the roundtable for a dialogue.
The only way to remove the current humanitarian disaster is by ordering the soldiers to stop fighting, again, Bishop Lodu.
Some citizens in Juba call for support because they are suffering from hunger.
The other citizen says she does not take anything like tea in the morning except one meal per day.
The government recently declared famine in some parts of the country, where 100 thousand people are facing looming starvation.