South Sudan: Hit By Fighting, Now By Prices
As desperation forces people to flee the conflict in northern border states, those who remain behind are forced to follow suit in their search for affordable food.
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South Sudan:
Hit By Fighting, Now By Prices
IPS, 29 April 2012
As thousands of people flee the conflict in South Sudan's northern border states, increasing numbers have also been forced to leave their homes and towns in search of affordable… Read more »
A local farmer harvests sorghum.
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Sudan:
Khartoum Seizes Trucks Smuggling Food to South Sudan
Sudan Tribune, 26 April 2012
Sudanese authorities have impounded more than 60 vehicles carrying food across the borders to South Sudan, an official said on Thursday, warning that Khartoum intends to rigidly… Read more »
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Africa:
Options Running Out for 37,000 Refugees in South Sudan's Jamam Camp, Oxfam Warns
Oxfam, 26 April 2012
Refugees face life-threatening water shortages and need urgent relocation as conflict spreads Read more »
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Sudan:
Khartoum Plans to Fight Strongly Food Smuggling to South Sudan
Sudan Tribune, 23 April 2012
Sudan's First Vice President Ali Osman Taha announced on Monday his government's plans to declare the state of emergency in the border areas with South Sudan to curb the smuggling… Read more »
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South Sudan:
Cabinet to Convene Emergency Meeting Over Looming Food Crisis
Sudan Tribune, 16 March 2012
South Sudan's cabinet is set to convene an "emergency meeting" immediately after the country's president, Salva Kiir, returns from a trip to the Bahr el Ghazal region, a senior… Read more »
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South Sudan:
Worsening Food Crisis
UNIRIN, 20 February 2012
An already dire food situation in South Sudan could deteriorate amid growing economic problems, food shortages and a mass influx of people fleeing Sudan in the next two months,… Read more »
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South Sudan:
UN Agencies Sound Alarm On Worsening Food Shortages
UN News, 8 February 2012
Two United Nations agencies warned today that millions of people in South Sudan are facing worsening hunger and called for urgent action to improve food security through adequate… Read more »
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Sudan:
Achievement of Household Food Security in South Sudan
Sudan Tribune, 10 April 2012
South Sudan is made up of ten States which grew out of the previous three southern provinces of Upper Nile, Equatoria and Bahr el Ghazal. Read more »
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South Sudan:
'Storm of Hunger' Threatens Lives of 2.5 Million - UN Official
UN News, 15 December 2011
Damaged crops combined with conflict and insecurity are threatening to leave some 2.5 million people in South Sudan - the world's newest country - in critical conditions unless… Read more »
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South Sudan:
Northern Bahr El Ghazal Denies Reports That Hunger Caused Death
Sudan Tribune, 17 August 2011
An official in Northern Bahr el Ghazal state government on Wednesday refuted media reports alleging that citizens in the region were dying of severe hunger, less than two months… Read more »
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Sudan:
Food Security Practical Plan for Nation
Sudan Tribune, 3 April 2012
In the States in South Sudan one of the greatest challenges faced is the achievement of food security. There is therefore expressed desire to ensure that all people anywhere in the… Read more »
InFocus
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Twelve months' worth of "international diplomatic failure and facile moral and diplomatic equivocation" may soon be paid in blood by hundreds of thousands of civilians in Sudan and ... Read more »
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The Northern Sudanese state of Southern Kordofan faces critical food shortages amid aerial bombings as the army destroys entire villages, reports Al Jazeera. Read more »
