Germany has donated $10.9 million to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) to provide food aid to communities hard hit by widespread flooding across South Sudan. A WFP official who just returned from Pibor said the flooding is a real emergency that requires an immediate response.
The WFP country director for South Sudan, Matthew Hollingworth, said Germany’s donation will put a major dent in the amount the U.N. agency needs to respond to the humanitarian emergency.
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