Humanitarian Crisis in South Sudan

Streams of thoughts

The weaponization of fear is a very dangerous thing. Through out the course of human history, all the catastrophic events that took place were driven by the pursuit of power based on fear of uncertainties. The quest of power is what has lead to what seems like an endless ethnic conflicts and violent power struggle within the military leadership since the countries independence in 2011. It has been estimated that they are over 2 million South Sudanese refugees in neighboring countries like Chad, Ethiopia and Uganda. Additionally, over 7.8 million of South Sudan’s Population continues to experience food shortages, and thousands of them are facing extreme hunger and starvation. Currently over a million of children in the southern region of Sudan are malnourished.