The International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) started airdropping emergency food to parts of famine-hit South Sudan.
As planes fly by, bags of emergency food supplies are dropped onto the fields below. Volunteers help gather the sacks of food and distribute them to starving residents.
The ICRC is working to provide food for some 20,000 people, who are reportedly on the brink of starvation, in Jonglei.
An unnamed Jonglei resident said, “We are suffering here, we have nothing to eat, we just rely on the airdrops.”
The United Nations has declared famine in parts of South Sudan, where nearly half of the population (some 5.5 million people) do not have secure food sources.
War-torn South Sudan is one of the least developed countries in the world, more than 3 million people were forced to flee their homes.
