{"id":20800,"date":"2015-10-23T03:25:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T03:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/south-sudan-war-30-000-people-face-starvation-un\/"},"modified":"2015-10-23T03:24:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T03:24:50","slug":"south-sudan-war-30-000-people-face-starvation-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/south-sudan-war-30-000-people-face-starvation-un\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan war: 30,000 people face starvation, UN warns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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{{At least 30,000 people are facing starvation in South Sudan, the UN has said.
\nThree UN agencies warned that a famine could develop in southern Unity State, where fighting has prevented deliveries of humanitarian aid.{}}}<\/p>\n

Two years of civil war have left nearly 4m people – particularly young children – facing severe hunger, the UN said.<\/p>\n

Both the government and rebel forces have accused each other of breaching a peace agreement signed in August.<\/p>\n

The conflict has left a third of the country’s population is in crisis, up 80% since last year, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), children’s agency Unicef and the World Food Programme (WFP) said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n

“People are on the edge of a catastrophe that can be prevented,” said WFP chief Joyce Luma.<\/p>\n

‘Catastrophic’ situation<\/p>\n

Fighting has disrupted harvests, food and fuel prices have risen and some displaced families are being forced to survive on a single daily meal of fish and water lilies.<\/p>\n

An official famine has not yet been declared, but almost a million people are described as living in a “catastrophic” situation, the highest level of food emergency under the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which classifies hunger on a scale of one to five.<\/p>\n

Under the IPC, a famine is declared when 20% of the population are deemed to be in a catastrophic situation.<\/p>\n

Families have been “extraordinary” in trying to sustain their children but have now exhausted all their coping mechanisms, said Jonathan Veitch, head of Unicef in South Sudan.<\/p>\n

“Agencies can support, but only if we have unrestricted access. If we do not, many children may die,” Mr Veitch said.<\/p>\n

The civil war began in December 2013, when President Salva Kiir accused his former deputy Riek Machar of planning a coup, setting off a cycle of retaliatory killings that has split the country along ethnic lines.<\/p>\n

Both sides are accused of perpetrating ethnic massacres, recruiting and killing children and carrying out widespread rape, torture and forced displacement of populations to force out their opponents.<\/p>\n

BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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