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           UN Footage Highlights Worsening Food Crisis in South Sudan

   by Reuters

   The [1]U.N. World Food Program on Wednesday released video highlighting
   a worsening food crisis in South Sudan, where up to to 5.3 million
   people could face severe food shortages over the March to September
   lean season.

   WFP footage showed young children waiting at a food distribution center
   in the northern Bahr El-Ghazal region for malnutrition tests as well as
   one family saying they were leaving South Sudan for Darfur because of
   the food crisis.

   From January to March, some 2.8 million people were classed as being in
   "crisis" or "emergency" food situations, with about 40,000 thought to
   be suffering an outright famine.

   The crisis comes despite attempts to end more than two years of
   fighting, which began in December 2013 when President Salva Kiir sacked
   his first vice president Riek Machar, triggering ethnically charged
   violence.

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   crisis-in-south-sudan/3325643.html

References

   1. http://www.wfp.org/
   2. http://www.voanews.com/content/un-footage-highlights-worsening-food-crisis-in-south-sudan/3325643.html