Geneva — The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has warned that urgent action needs to be taken to save hundreds of thousands of people in South Sudan from starvation. It is estimated that more than a hundred thousand people have been forced to leave their homes during the past four weeks because of an upsurge in violence.
This comes on top of around two million people who have already been forced to flee their homes during the past eighteen months since the crisis began. Many have crossed into neighbouring Ethiopia, Uganda, Sudan and Kenya.
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