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After six months of conflict, South Sudan faces a threat more dire than the violence itself
Source: Medair - Switzerland - Tue, 10 Jun 2014 09:48 GMT
Author: Medair
...One of the greatest threats to life, however, is South Sudan?s severe food shortage. ?Crops haven?t been planted or harvested. Markets have been destroyed, and food supply routes have been shut due to insecurity and muddy roads. Food was scarce even before the conflict started; now it is all but gone. We are seeing people climbing trees to pick leaves to eat and wading into murky swamps to consume water lilies,? said Wendy van Amerongen, Medair Communications Officer. ?Rates of malnutrition are skyrocketing.?
Famine has become a real possibility. The UN warns that four million people will be on the brink of starvation by the end of 2014; 50,000 children are said to be at imminent risk of starvation. Toby Lanzer, the UN?s top official in South Sudan, believes the country could face the worst famine the world has seen since Ethiopia in the mid-1980s. ?If the crisis reaches that level, the eyes of the world will be on South Sudan, and everyone will ask why we didn?t do more to stop it,? said Jim Ingram, Medair CEO. ?This is our window of opportunity. We need the world to know this is happening and give them a chance to take a stand.?...
After six months of conflict, South Sudan faces a threat more dire than the violence itself
Source: Medair - Switzerland - Tue, 10 Jun 2014 09:48 GMT
Author: Medair
...One of the greatest threats to life, however, is South Sudan?s severe food shortage. ?Crops haven?t been planted or harvested. Markets have been destroyed, and food supply routes have been shut due to insecurity and muddy roads. Food was scarce even before the conflict started; now it is all but gone. We are seeing people climbing trees to pick leaves to eat and wading into murky swamps to consume water lilies,? said Wendy van Amerongen, Medair Communications Officer. ?Rates of malnutrition are skyrocketing.?
Famine has become a real possibility. The UN warns that four million people will be on the brink of starvation by the end of 2014; 50,000 children are said to be at imminent risk of starvation. Toby Lanzer, the UN?s top official in South Sudan, believes the country could face the worst famine the world has seen since Ethiopia in the mid-1980s. ?If the crisis reaches that level, the eyes of the world will be on South Sudan, and everyone will ask why we didn?t do more to stop it,? said Jim Ingram, Medair CEO. ?This is our window of opportunity. We need the world to know this is happening and give them a chance to take a stand.?...