government and you know these actors need to negotiate that sort of arrangement all right matthew the world food program says it needs something like almost $500000000.00 over the next 6 months to be able to cope with the magnitude of this. disaster now do you think the international community is expressing and up a tie to step in against a backdrop of what we're seeing on the ground. i mean i think we have enormously generous donors member states that have stood by south sudan when it was southern sudan during the operation lifeline program that was referred to earlier and since independence in 2011 and those those member states are still wanting to see a successful country but he continued to grow to be prosperous to be peaceful and if they can see if those donors can see that this country is going to be stable and that unity will maintain they'll continue to support but i fear that if they see that they're going to be throwing good money after bad they want i mean i think it's really important just following on from from the last question that i mean in areas like the greater people are going to sort

conflict and climate change ensure that the well of the well food program is not about to get any easy after. joining us from the world food program is matthew hollingworth he is the country director at the piano speaking to us from juba the capital of south sudan and appreciate your joining us matthew how do you feel about the w f t winning this year's nobel peace prize i think i have an idea where i'm going i can honestly say there's 1200 strong of us in the world food program in south sudan one of the largest operations in the world and we go oh. by the decision of the committee to give this amazing office of the world. to give us a quick sense of the extent to which the global food security crisis is being used as a as a weapon of war in certain regions. there and everywhere where there are the 690000000 people who go to go hungry every night the vast majority of those countries are countries that face conflicts and violence and that's typically the common denominator and what we want to do is ensure that we have is to help those people with immediate relief but also to support them get through that period where we can help bring peace t

the civil war. joining me now are our guests in georgia matthew hollingworth south sudan country director for the world food program in oxford douglas johnson former member of the boundary commission and author of south sudan in your history for a new nation also enjoy over jeffords you security analyst and director of the south sudan action network on small arms while come to your matthew united nations agencies have been saying for quite some time that areas in south sudan are on the brink of famine how where the response didn't really match with the magnitude of the problem why's that. i think. hello to everybody i sadly i think we've been warning for a number of months now most of this year that the tribulation of national subnational and localized conflict in the country married to a 2nd year of unprecedented flooding has meant that this country is now facing food insecurity of scale but it has not faced before more than 7 and a half or more or less than a half 1000000 people expected to need food assistance by the lean season of 2021 is an unprecedented level and what we have been struggling to do is to reach

the united nations 00. alright let's bring in our guests from juba in south sudan matthew hollingworth the world food program south sudan country director from phnom penh cambodia emma leslie director of the center for peace and conflict studies and from paris all they solve on director of partnerships and policy for the norwegian refugee council thank you all for joining us matthew let me start with you 1st let me say congratulations on this tremendous honor to you and all your colleagues with the world food program what is this going to mean for you for the world food program and for all the people that you know you're trying to help in places like south sudan. exactly for all of the family welfare program around the world and we're thrilled and sort of on a by what is this amazing achievement and the recognition of course of the work that we've been doing over the last few years but in particular this year as the world sutton's struggles through time and once again and also the recognition of course that hunger and war and conflict goes hand in hand and the world needs to do everything it can alongside th

conflict and climate change ensure that the well of the well food program is not about to get any easier. joining us from the world food program is matthew hollingworth he is the country director at the piano speaking to us from juba the capital of south sudan and appreciate your joining us matthew how do you feel about the job you have to be winning this year's nobel peace prize i think i have an idea where i'm going are going on 1200 strong of us in the world food program in south sudan one of the largest operations in the world and we go oh. by the decision of the committee to give this amazing always. give us a quick sense of the extent to which the global food security crisis is being used as a as a weapon of war in certain regions. there and everywhere where there are the 690000000 people who go to go hungry every night the vast majority of those countries are countries that face conflicts and violence and that's typically the common denominator and what we want to do is ensure that he is to help those people with immediate relief but also to support them get through that period where we can help bring peace to our country as well

food crisis are highly vulnerable to the consequences of the virus in the allen and south sudan more than half of the population face acute food shortages matthew hollingworth is the world food program's country director for south sudan he says the pandemic is disrupting food supplies even in urban areas private 19 is bringing back to south sudan and a new prices the. people who are typically average to make a living on tragedy will employment and who suddenly because of carbon 19 and not able to do their restrictions coming in supply chain restrictions lockdowns or affecting their ability to earn enough money to buy food in the markets the other thing of course is that these people all rely on markets to meet their own needs and most of that food is coming in typically from outside the country. covered 19 also interrupts their supply chains it right it raises the price of maize is already going up by 40 percent in the last month alone in price and that's a main staple of people or people here in juba so the urban population we're very fearful that the 6 and a half 1000000 people we expect to be able to have to support in the league season in this country are going to have another 100

food crises countries are highly vulnerable to the consequences of the outbreak in yemen and south sudan more than half of the population's facing acute food insecurity let's talk to matthew hollingworth he's the world food program's county director for south sudan he joins us from the south sudanese capital juba welcome back to the news are the people of south sudan have stumbled from crisis to crisis can they withstand this. well i think clearly the people themselves are incredibly resilient in south sudan but you're right that this we're now bracing ourselves brought another crisis upon many more than one half the population of this country and 6 and a half 1000000 people in crisis levels of food insecurity or worse crime at 19 is just yet another emergency that we're going to face but these are as i say credibly resilient people what we need to be able to do is to continue our work continued to get resources to do our work and continue the supply chain nightmare that is our work of getting through to this 6 and a half 1000000 people around this country when we look at a country like south sudan however historically a crisis generally either took place in the city and the urban areas or the rural areas because