South Sudan: Food Security Body IPC Warns of Famine in South Sudan

Oct 22, 2015 | Tom Miles, Reuters
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South Sudan faces a serious risk of famine by the end of this year and 30,000 people are already classified as being in a food security catastrophe, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said on Thursday. Hunger in the world's newest state has grown steadily worse in the nearly two years since a political crisis led to fighting that reopened ethnic fault lines between President Salva Kiir's Dinka people and ethnic Nuer forces loyal to former Vice President Riek Machar. The two have signed a series of peace deals but fighting rages on.