South Sudan Needs Additional Humanitarian Funding To Provide Food Aid, Health, Sanitation Services

Agence France-Presse: War-torn South Sudan starvation levels ‘alarming’: U.N.
“U.N. food experts warned Tuesday of ‘alarming’ levels of starvation in South Sudan with food prices at record highs after two years of civil war marked by atrocities…” (3/29).

U.N. News Centre: Hunger and ongoing insecurity forcing South Sudanese to flee country, U.N. agency reports
“Growing food insecurity is causing more and more South Sudanese to flee into Sudan, the United Nations refugee agency [said Tuesday], urging more funding for clean water, sanitation and health services, food and shelter…” (3/29).

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