The United Nations World Food Programme or WFP said it resumed airdrop operations in South Sudan on Tuesday after a temporary suspension.
WFP spokesperson George Fominyen said the agency was forced to suspend airdrops temporarily due to a misunderstanding about flight clearances.
He said WFP started airdrops of food in some locations as the issues were resolved.
Fominyen noted that food drops are key to ability to deliver aid in remote locations which cannot be reached by road.
He said the organisation had been using airdrops in Unity, Jonglei and Upper Nile States for more than two years now and recently in Bahr el Ghazal region this year.
The spokesperson says many people in South Sudan face food insecurity and the number is likely to rise with the renewed violence in the young nation.
Reports say South Sudan is currently facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises as December 2013 conflict displaced over a million of its population.