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WFP warns South Sudan faces catastrophic hunger as violence displaces communities
Summary
World Food Programme Country Director Mary Ellen McGorty told a United Nations Association briefing that renewed fighting and displacement in South Sudan have pushed more than half the country into crisis-level food insecurity and left critical aid unreachable; WFP says it needs $396 million to reach 4.5 million people through December.
Mary Ellen McGorty, the World Food Programme country director in South Sudan, told a briefing hosted by the United Nations Association that renewed violence in parts of the country is driving people from their homes at a time when the annual "lean season" is already pushing hunger to its peak.
"Nearly 7,700,000 people, that's over half the population, are already facing crisis, emergency or catastrophic levels of hunger here in South Sudan," McGorty said, describing what she called among the worst levels of food insecurity the country has seen since independence.
McGorty said the renewed fighting and fragmentation of armed groups in the Greater Upper Nile region have compounded cyclical food shortages,…
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