South Sudan suffering ‘man-made’ famine
With nearly 5-million people, or more than 40% of its population, hungry, South Sudan has declared famine in parts of that country
Juba — South Sudan declared famine in parts of the country on Monday. More than three years of war have left nearly 5-million hungry in what aid groups called a "man-made" tragedy. Isaiah Chol Aruai, chairman of South Sudan’s National Bureau of Statistics, said parts of the northern Greater Unity region were "classified in famine, or... risk of famine". Aid agencies said 100,000 people were affected by the famine, which threatened another million people in the coming months. "A formal famine declaration means people have already started dying of hunger. The situation is the worst hunger catastrophe since fighting erupted more than three years ago," said a statement by the World Food Programme, UN children’s agency Unicef and the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO). South Sudan, the youngest nation, was engulfed by civil war in 2013 after President Salva Kiir accused rival and former deputy Riek Machar of plotting a coup against him. An August 2015 peace deal was left in tatters...
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