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Country: South Sudan Source: REACH Initiative Please refer to the attached file. Increased displacement from Sudan, severe flooding, and economic turmoil have led to a growing number of people in need of humanitarian assistance in Northern Bahr el Ghazal state, South Sudan. The drivers of acute needs seem unlikely to abate in 2025. OVERVIEW Since April 2023, South Sudan has received more
than 800,000 people displaced by fighting in Sudan. Although the large majority - roughly 80% - have crossed the border through a single town in Upper Nile State, intensified fighting in the neighboring Kordofan region of Sudan in 2024 has resulted in the emergence of another major entry area further west, in Northern Bahr el Ghazal (NBeG). The Majokyinthio border crossing in Aweil East county is now the second most trafficked point of entry from Sudan nationwide, and NBeG one of the most common settlement areas for new arrivals. Aid organizations have recorded
more than 50,000 people crossing the border into NBeG, while tens of thousands more have arrived from elsewhere in the country. Official figures, however, are widely regarded as undercounts. The growing use of “informal” entry points has complicated efforts to track new arrivals, as established routes are increasingly deemed too unsafe for travel. Findings suggest that gaps in monitoring along the NBeG border have left many South Sudanese “returnees” - who comprise the large majority of arrivals - without humanitarian assistance since their initial displacement. Returnees also commonly reported feeling marginalized by traditional authorities in the distribution of aid, suggesting a broader pattern of social exclusion and vulnerability. The economic impact of the conflict has placed immense strain on the ability of both returnees and resident households to meet their basic needs. Prices of food and basic commodities, previously imported from Sudan, have risen by more than 200% in 2024, while households reliant on seasonal labour opportunities in Sudan have lost critical sources of income. Growing unaffordability of food was frequently cited as a primary source of hunger, which recent IPC analysis indicates has reached catastrophic levels (IPC Phase-5) for some returnee households. Since June, severe flooding has exacerbated humanitarian challenges, inundating swathes of cropland, destroying critical infrastructure, and displacing tens of thousands of people. The flooding poses both immediate and long-term risks to public health and livelihoods. Poor agricultural production may trigger an atypically early onset of the 2025 lean season and could worsen already critical rates of acute malnutrition, which, according to available data, have reached their highest prevalence since the 2013- 2018 crisis, in some areas, and are rising across the state. The drivers of acute needs seem unlikely to abate in 2025. An escalation of the conflict or a collapse in local governance in Sudan would precipitate increased arrivals, while economic conditions in South Sudan are unlikely to quickly improve. Humanitarian assistance remains crucial to mitigating an ongoing public
health crisis and facilitating the reintegration of new arrivals. Priority should be given to food, shelter, and healthcare which were consistently identified as urgent unmet needs.

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Aweil

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Northern

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Ghazal

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Aweil

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Northern

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Ghazal

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