Video: WFP official says more food aid desperately needed to feed thousands in South Sudan Speaking in Rome, Valerie Guarnieri, WFP's East and Central Africa Regional Director, said the organisation had begun providing food for displaced people within days of the outbreak of fighting. "Moving forward we're going to need at least 57 million dollars, but likely more, in order to assist the conflict-affected people," Guarnieri said. Guarnieri also said the WFP has access to people living near the United Nations Mission in South Sudan bases "but there are very few places outside those areas in the conflict-affected states that we have been able to access." The conflict in South Sudan - the world's newest country - has forced at least 200,000 people to flee their homes in search of safety, the WFP estimates.