Children watch as a World Food Programme C-130 cargo plane drops 50-kilogram sacks of corn. The food was to be distributed to people in outlaying areas around Mayandit, Western Upper Nile in Southern Sudan. Although there has been a ceasefire declared between the rebel Sudanese people Liberation Army and the government of Sudan, Western Upper Nile has seen fighting on a daily basis. This insecurity combined with a regional drought has left the people of Mayandit with no food and wholly dependent upon food aid from World Food Programme. Almost all of the food comes from the US, which donates $78 million annually to Operation Lifeline Southern Sudan.