The United States is providing nearly $83 million in additional humanitarian assistance to hundreds of thousands of people suffering more than three months of violence in South Sudan, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
USAID Assistant Administrator for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, Nancy Lindborg, said the new injection of funding will help provide urgently needed food, medical supplies, hygiene kits and shelter to hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people who have sought refuge at U.N. Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) bases and compounds, and in the bush.
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