A Third Of South Sudanese Face Starvation As Conflict Rages: U.N

Publisher:
Wochit
Publication Date:
20 May 2014
Tags:
South Sudan, Refugees and Displacement

More than a third of South Sudan's population, four million people, will be on the edge of starvation by the end of the year as fighting rages on in the world's newest country, U.N. officials said on Tuesday. Clashes between rebels and government forces have wrecked food markets and forced people to abandon their livestock and land, the aid experts added. "We are losing time."

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