WFP South Sudan Situation Report #83, 26 June 2015

Highlights

• South Sudan/Sudan MOU extension. WFP facilitated a meeting on 23 June between the Governments of South Sudan and Sudan on the extension of the Memorandum of Understanding between the two countries through the end of 2015. With the extension, which allows movement of certain cargo from Sudan to South Sudan, WFP can continue to conduct faster and more cost-effective deliveries of food assistance to conflict-affected populations and refugees.
• WFP working with other humanitarian actors re-establish reach to people in hard-to-access locations. In response to the shrinking humanitarian space and guided by a ‘Do No Harm’ approach, WFP is providing food commodities for the ‘emergency survival kits’. They include fishing kits, short maturity vegetable seeds, water purification tablets, mosquito nets, WFP’s nutritious ready-to-eat high-energy biscuits or one/two week rations (as appropriate) and other basic items needed to survive. Additionally, WFP is providing quick rations, particularly high energy biscuits, through partners with access in Unity, to re-establish assistance in certain locations there.
• Relief Organization for South Sudan (ROSS) releases statement on the ongoing humanitarian crisis. Following a conference held in Nairobi on 19-20 June with South Sudan’s humanitarian community, ROSS released a statement about a variety of issues, including its commitment to facilitating humanitarian assistance, particularly the exemption of humanitarian actors from taxes, fees and travel permits when performing their official duties in opposition controlled areas and freedom from coercion from providing support to certain groups.