"SOUTH SUDAN"

As South Sudan grapples with multiple challenges, Nicholas Haysom, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative and Head of UNMISS, urged political leaders to galvanize momentum in peace processes so that free, fair, and credible elections can be held on time. UNMISS

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan, Volker Perthes, said that the increased suffering of the people in the country “is not a result of aid organizations not being there or aid organizations not doing anything. The suffering of the people is a result of a war.” UNIFEED / FILE

As heavy fighting continues, UN humanitarians warned on Friday that more than one million people have now been forced to flee for their lives. UNTV CH

South Sudan has seen an influx in people arriving in the country to escape conflict in Sudan. At least 46,000 South Sudanese have gone back home to the country they once fled. UNHCR and partners are providing new arrivals with food, water, blankets, mats and buckets, as well as emergency medical treatment. UNHCR

Noon briefing by Stephanie Tremblay, Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is rapidly scaling up its emergency operations in Sudan, every day reaching thousands more people whose lives have been upended by the ongoing fighting. WFP

With the conflict in Sudan entering its second month, the United Nations and its partners today called for US$3 billion to help millions of people in the country and hundreds of thousands fleeing to neighbouring countries. UNHCR

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan held interactive workshops in the country to talk about constitution-making and election processes. UNMISS

Following a high-level field mission with the UN Refugees Agency to the border regions of Chad with Sudan, where 60,000 refugees have arrived recently, Education Cannot Wait’s Executive Director Yasmine Sherif announced a US$3 million First Emergency Response grant. ECW