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Save the Children says children in South Sudan who have been displaced are at risk of cholera

Dimmed hope for flood affected children in South Sudan

FLOODING, CONFLICT, AND HUNGER CRUSHING THE LIVES OF SOUTH SUDAN’S CHILDREN

Save the Children works across multiple sectors and in multiple states in South Sudan, helping children survive and thrive in some of the hardest conditions in the world. Working across eight of the country’s ten states, we currently run multi-sectoral and integrated programs in child protection, child rights governance, education, food security & livelihoods, health & nutrition, and WASH sectors.Children in South Sudan face many daily challenges, including poor levels of education, limited access to healthcare and vaccinations, high levels of malnutrition, and frequent floods, conflict and food shortages.Save the Children works to improve children’s lives in South Sudan by supporting schools, training teachers, building the capacity of the health sector to tackle child mortality and improve child health, treating and preventing malnutrition, helping families to grow sufficient food, and protecting children from violence, abuse and exploitation. We also work with the government to fight for the protection of children’s rights in the world’s youngest country.In line with Save the Children’s dual mandate, in South Sudan we not only work to provide children and their families with long-term development assistance but are also ready to respond if there is an emergency. In South Sudan, our primary areas of focus in emergencies are education and child protection, supporting children affected by conflict, displacement, and natural disasters.

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Save the Children has been working with and for children, their families and communities in South Sudan since 1991. We provide children with access to education, healthcare and nutrition support, and families with food security and livelihoods assistance.

Refugees fleeing conflict in Sudan face hunger and disease in South Sudan as aid funding dries up, food rations are squeezed, and food costs soar.

Save the Children welcomes decline in violations against children in South Sudan

The ongoing humanitarian crisis in South Sudan has left many individuals displaced, vulnerable, and inadequately supported

South Sudan: More than 200,000 children forced to flee their homes following flooding

CHILDREN IN SOUTH SUDAN SAY HUNGER IS FORCING THEM INTO CHILD MARRIAGE AND CRIME

One in two people face starvation in South Sudan, as extreme hunger hits more states.

bout 1,000 people a day are fleeing into South Sudan from Sudan after nearly one year of war, arriving in scorching heat and with children in dire nee

Dangerously high temperatures have forced schools across South Sudan to close for the second year in a row, putting learning out of reach for many children and pushing them further into risks like early marriage, child labour and recruitment into armed groups, Save the Children said.

South Sudan on the brink of famine as it braces for worst floods in 60 years

We are working to help families in South Sudan improve immediate access to food and essential items while simultaneously strengthening household recovery.

Eight years after independence, highest number of people ever face critical food shortages in South Sudan

South Sudan: Number of people in crisis levels of hunger increases by 50% in 10 years

Violence, flooding, and displacement push one million children in South Sudan to the brink of starvation

Save the Children has reunited Simon* with his brother Samuel* in South Sudan - the 7,000th reunification by the child rights organisation

South Sudan: At least 75 people killed including three children as violence surges in Abyei

Save the Children condemns the killing of humanitarian workers and children during intercommunal violence in South Sudan

Fears of polio spike among children in South Sudan as new cases put children’s lives at further risk

A deadly mix of conflict, climate change and poverty have pushed 2.3 million children aged under 5 in South Sudan into life threatening acute malnutrition, with rates soaring just months after foreign governments announced the slashing of funds to the world’s poorest countries, Save the Children said.

South Sudan gained independence on 9 July 2011 in one of the most celebrated moments in modern African history. Fifteen years later, the country now faces one of the world's largest humanitarian crises.

Save the Children, with funding from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), has launched a US$18.6 million project to strengthen climate resilience through education across South Sudan.

Escalating violence in South Sudan's Jonglei state has forced the withdrawal of aid agencies from key areas, triggering mass displacement and leaving families stranded and without essential and life-saving service.

Girls in South Sudan and Iraq displaced by conflict tell of increased risk of child marriage, pregnancy, violence, and mental health issues

At least five children with cholera in South Sudan have died on an arduous journey to seek medical treatment, after aid cuts forced their local health services to close in the middle of a major outbreak of the deadly disease, Save the Children said.

We work to ensure that children affected by conflict, displacement, climate shocks, and poverty in Sudan are able to access quality education.

Families and children in South Sudan’s eastern Jonglei state are surviving on leaves and water lilies as hunger surges towards famine levels in parts of the country following three months of escalating violence.

Sudan: Life-saving messages reach North Darfur and South Kordofan in effort to halt the spread of COVID-19

Nearly two-thirds of South Sudanese children surveyed aged between 5 and 17 years are engaged in the worst form of child labour, with rates soaring to as high as 90% in the worst hit regions, according to a new report by the Ministry of Labour, Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare.

Children fleeing the violence in Sudan are arriving in South Sudan and Egypt showing signs of acute distress and shock with some withdrawn

We work to ensure that children across Sudan have access to clean water and dignified toilets to prevent the spread of diseases.

Almost 1 year on since the conflict broke out in Sudan, colleague Stephen provides an account on what fleeing the conflict to South Sudan was like.

The first shipment of vaccines to South Kordofan state in nearly three years will restore lifesaving immunisation services to children and communities cut off from essential supplies due to conflict and siege.

Save the Children Intermediate Humanitarian Programme (SHIP) has reached an important milestone with the completion of its long-distance learning phase and the commencement of an intensive six-day residential simulation at Fire House, Juba, from 27 April to 2 May 2026.

A year of conflict has left Sudan’s immunisation safety net frayed. Gavi and Save the Children are helping vaccinators patch it back up.

JUBA, 20th, January 2026 – Thousands of families affected by conflict and severe flooding in South Sudan will receive lifesaving cash, health and nutrition support in the next four months as European Union injects more funds to South Sudan, Save the Children said.

JUBA, 9 June 2026 – Families and children in South Sudan’s eastern Jonglei state are surviving on leaves and water lilies as hunger surges towards famine levels in parts of the country following three months of escalating violence, Save the Children said.Many families in Jonglei state have been left without essential and life-saving services since an escalation in violence in March led to the suspension of aid operations in areas and government orders to aid agencies to evacuate, triggering mass displacement.

One Save the Children staffer who was caught up in the violence has told a harrowing story of suffering and survival, following the repeated evacuations of towns across Akobo County in eastern Jonglei state since the start of the year.

This year an estimated 1.4 million people – about one sixth of the population in the world’s newest country – face the threat of flooding.

Almost five years of conflict and more than four million people uprooted have combined to see children separated across the country

This includes more than 650,000 children expected to be facing the most deadly form of malnutrition – severe acute malnutrition - a rise of 30% from 480,000.

We are working with governments and our partners to keep children healthy and safe throughout pregnancy and birth, with the nutrition and medical care they need to reach their fifth birthday, and thrive into adulthood.

We work to ensure that children are protected from all forms of abuse, violence, exploitation, and neglect and have a Zero Tolerance to Violence.

Monica* is a 25-year-old woman, who was born in South Sudan but fled to Sudan in 2013 when war broke out and had to flee back to South Sudan last year

Save the Children said it has suspended all operations in Walgak in Akobo Country and was pulling its 30 staff out of the area after its field office was burnt the ground and its Primary Health Care Centre (PHCC) destroyed, cutting off essential services for hundreds of children and families.

The latest IPC figures show that next April, between planting and harvesting, about 3.5 million children–53%–will be facing acute hunger, up from 42% currently.

Statement: New cases of Ebola in South Kivu

Children and families living in near-siege conditions in Kadugli in southern Sudan have run out emergency food supplies, with fighting blocking acces

Kim’s story: Growing up gay in South Africa

Sudan: Violence cuts off access to health services for 14,000 children

The conflict in Sudan has seen a major increase in intensity in recent weeks, with violence hitting a seven-month high

Nearly half of children in Sudan are set to go hungry says Save the Children

Sudan Country Director Arshad Malik crosses a submerged road in Gezira State (Credit: Ahmed Kodouda / Save the Children)

Save the Children press release on hunger and severe acute malnutrition in Sudan

Reaching every last girl in Sudan

SUDAN: 17,000 children per day to fall into crisis levels of hunger by September

Hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza and Sudan are at risk of famine. But what does that mean exactly?

Potential risk of famine in Yemen and South Sudan, warns Save the Children.

Conflict in Sudan is driving hunger to record levels

The number of children killed, injured or facing other grave violations in Sudan soared six-fold in 2023 to a record high

Teen pregnancies in South Africa jump 60% during COVID-19 pandemic

Technology has allowed for Save the Children to facilitate the reunification of 7,000 children with their families in South Sudan.

Thousands of children in eastern Sudan are at risk of cholera following a major outbreak caused by widespread flooding.

Armed groups occupying health facilities and looting supplies in Sudan are taking life-saving treatment from millions of child

It is estimated that about 4,000 babies are born on average every day in Sudan, which has entered its 18th month of conflict.

Nine schools supported by Save the Children damaged in South Africa violence

As COP29 is coming to an end, Save the Children and child campaigners in Baku remind world leaders that children’s rights must be at the centre of negotiations over the climate finance goal.

Picture of Naomi from South Sudan, speaking at the Plenary at COP28 in Dubai

New data released today by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), global acute malnutrition rates in the Um Baru and Kernoi localities have reached nearly 53% and 34% respectively, with concerns that nearby areas may also be experiencing similar catastrophic conditions, with the extent remaining unknown due to access constraints [1].

Aid agencies including Save the Children, who work on education in Sudan, warn that the country is on the brink of the worst education crisis in the world

More than 350 children murdered in South Africa between October and December 2021

Urgent, life-saving funding is needed to respond to the massive and worsening crisis in Sudan

Drawing by Maram who is supported by Save the Children in a child-friendly space in Sudan

Save the Children press release on Sudan raising one fifth of funds raised for Notre Dame cathedral

War in Ukraine threatens to increase hunger in Sudan

South Africa: Save the Children calls for greater protection of children as violence spreads

Actor and screenwriter Sacha Baron Cohen has donated US$500,000 to Save the Children and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) for their work in Sudan which is facing the world’s largest displacement crisis and heading towards the worst famine seen in decades.

Save the Children is committed to protecting children in Sudan press release

Sudan is one of the world’s largest humanitarian emergencies and one of the gravest crises for children’s rights. Every day the fighting continues, another generation of children remains shut out of school. Yet amidst all this, there are stories of children who refuse to let go of hope. Vishna Shah, Director for Child Rights Advocacy and Campaign at Save the Children International, met some of these children during her recent visit to Sudan.

Aid Worker Account from Omer Sharfy in Sudan to mark one month since the fighting erupted.

Deaths of two children signals looming hunger crisis over Sudan

Number of children displaced across Sudan likely highest in the world

Ezibon Saadalla Khamis is Humanitarian Communications Coordinator with Save the Children South Sudan. He is passionate about his job, especially working directly with children and knowing every story, photo and video he captures helps to amplify their voices for a brighter future. Here, he explains what drives him.

Sudan crisis: Children forced to work, skip meals as situation worsens

Children must be protected in Sudan amidst surge in violence

Between February 20 and 26, Sudan’s Ministry of Health [1], reported over 2243 cases of cholera - or an average of nearly 400 cases a day - in Kosti. At least 70 people are confirmed to have died from the illness during this period.

Save the Children to provide supported playgroup for bushfire affected children in New South Wales

Save the Children office looted in Sudan as country endures third day of fighting

Power outages across Sudan have destroyed cold chain storage facilities for lifesaving vaccines, as well as the national stock of insulin and several

One in four people face severe hunger in Sudan as food crisis deepens

As thousands cross border into Sudan, focus must be on safety of children

During one year of war in Sudan more than 10 million children have been in an active warzone