World Food Programme suspends some food aid in South Sudan as funds dry up

FILE PHOTO: Men carry bags of food while women wait for their rations at the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) food distribution site in Pibor, South Sudan, June 25, 2012. Picture taken June 25, 2012. REUTERS/Adriane Ohanesian/File Photo

LONDON/GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday it had suspended some food aid in South Sudan due to a funding shortage - heightening the risk of starvation for 1.7 million people.

The move to suspend aid to almost a third of the 6.2 million people in South Sudan the WFP had planned to assist this year comes as global food prices soar amid the Russia-Ukraine war, leaving humanitarian agencies with funding shortfalls.