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FAO warns of over 3.7 million South Sudanese facing food crisis
by Joseph Earnest February 6, 2014
Newscast
Media JUBA, Sudan—The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has
warned that 3.7 million South Sudanese are facing an acute or emergency
food security crisis, as an aftermath of the civil war than broke out in
the new nation on December 15, 2013. Up to seven million people are at risk of some level of food insecurity in the world’s newest nation. Over 870 000 South Sudanese have fled their homes in the last six weeks
after fighting broke out in Juba in December and spread across the
eastern and central parts of the country. *Click here to read or download the entire FAO assessment of S. Sudan (pop-up)
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