Poor harvests in the Southern region of Sudan has brought on the conclusion of the United Nations’ report that millions of people in the area will be needing food aid in 2012.

The region won its independence in July and since then the government of the south sudan had been struggling in the building of basic amenities in the country,end fracas,violence and above all overcome economic crisis.

The UN has also started moving aid from Nairobi with 12 metric tons of supplies recently dispatched to Maban, in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state. Supplies included plastic sheets, sleeping mats, blankets and mosquito nets, among other items.

The supplies worth 2.5 million dollars were later moved to Maban County in Upper Nile state where they were distributed to people displaced by fighting in the Blue Nile and Southern Kordofan states.

More than 80,000 people have fled to South Sudan from northern border states, where Khartoum’s army has been fighting insurgents for months.

WFP and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that the young nation will have a shortfall of 400,000 metric tons of food in 2012.

Inflation climbed to 78.8 percent in November in the country of 8.3 million people.

Relations between Juba and Khartoum have soured in recent weeks as talks over post-independence issues such as oil, debt arrears, disputed areas and transitional financial assistance have broken down.

Sudan and South Sudan regularly trade accusations and denials of supporting insurgencies in each other’s country, although direct combat between the two armies broke out in a border area claimed by both sides.