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

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