Sudan: South Sudan - UN Relief Official Urges Respect for Ceasefire, Scaling Up of Aid Operations

21 November 2014

Concluding a three-day mission to South Sudan, a senior United Nations relief official has called on all parties to the conflict there to respect their ceasefire commitments, while urging the international community to continue providing support to enable humanitarians to scale up and expand critical aid operations.

In a press release issued today by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Kyung-wha Kang, noted that while the humanitarian community has reached more than 3.5 million people with assistance this year, the situation in South Sudan remains "bleak" and the number of people who are severely food insecure is projected to increase to 2.5 million in early 2015.

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