South Sudan: Humanitarian Snapshot (November 2024)

Between September and November 2024, an estimated 6.3 million people—47 per cent of the population analyzed—were classified in IPC Phase 3 (Crisis) or above.¹ This includes 1.71 million people facing critical levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 4, Emergency) and 41,000 people experiencing catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 5, Catastrophe). The IPC Phase 5 population includes 10,000 people in Malakal County, Upper Nile State, and an estimated 31,000 South Sudanese returnees who fled Sudan due to the ongoing conflict. Compared to the same period in 2023, this represents an increase of approximately 500,000 people in IPC Phase 3 or above. As of 30 November, 887,991 individuals have arrived in South Sudan since the Sudan crisis started in April 2023.2 Of those, 33,131 people have arrived in November alone. Local authorities in Renk County reported an air strike by Sudan Armed Forces on 30 November took place in the county inside South Sudanese territory that injured civilians and forced some 3,600 people to flee their homes. By the end of November, over 1.4 million people were affected by flooding across 44 counties and the Abyei Administrative Area.³ Over 379,000 people were flood-displaced across 22 counties and Abyei.

Renewed violence between two conflicting communities in Tambura County forced an unconfirmed number of civilians to flee to a displacement site near the UNMISS base in town seeking safety.

Fighting between armed groups in Panyikang County, Upper Nile State, killed several people and displaced an unconfirmed number of civilians from their homes. Cholera cases significantly increased in South Sudan as of 30 November, bringing the total number of cases to 1,285 people, with 12 deaths in 18 counties across six states since the outbreak was declared on 28 October 2024.