At the beginning of the 2019 desert locust upsurge in the Horn of Africa, the Government of the Sudan – through the Plant Protection Directorate (PPD) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources – took immediate action to protect against an invasion from neighbouring countries. In November...

In 2020, the food insecurity situation in South Sudan reached unprecedented levels. According to the 2019 Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) projections, in the period between January and April 2020, an estimated 5.5 million people faced Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or worse levels of high...