South Sudan: Crop-Eating Caterpillar to Worsen South Sudan's Hunger Woes - UN

Jul 19, 2017 | Umberto Bacchi, Reuters
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An infestation of fall armyworm, a crop-eating caterpillar that has ravaged fields across Africa, will deepen hunger in famine-threatened South Sudan, a U.N. official said on Wednesday. Outbreaks have been reported in southern Equatoria, a key farming region near the border with Uganda, as well as in areas of the Northern Bahr el Gazal and Jonglei states, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said.