SOUTH SUDAN Famine ‘almost a certainty’ The conflict has caused a food emergency and sanctions against the rival leaders for blocking progress are now on the table. One million South Sudanese are at threatened by starvation, with at least another three million at serious risk, United Nations and United States officials say. The US Agency for International Developments Assistant Administrator for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, Nancy Lindborg, gave the warning after the annual board meeting of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Brussels on 2 July. USAIDs complex emergency map shows the whole country except Western Equatorial as at least stressed for food security and most of it at crisis or emergency level. The next category is catastrophe/famine and that is likely to be declared next month. It is almost a certainty, Lindborg told Africa Confidential. africa-confidential/article-preview/id/5686/Famine_%e2%80%98almost_a_certainty%e2%80%99
Posted on: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 00:00:27 +0000
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