World Food Programme Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/world-food-programme/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 19 Feb 2017 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 World Food Programme Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/world-food-programme/ 32 32 Man made famine declared in South Sudan https://jjcornish.com/2017/02/man-made-famine-declared-south-sudan/ Sun, 19 Feb 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/02/man-made-famine-declared-south-sudan/ Famine has been declared in parts of South Sudan where United Nations agencies warn that war and a collapsing economy have left 100 000 people facing starvation. A further 1 million people are classified as being on the brink of famine according to the World Food Programme and other UN bodies. Unimpeded humanitarian access is […]

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]]> Famine has been declared in parts of South Sudan where United Nations agencies warn that war and a collapsing economy have left 100 000 people facing starvation.

A further 1 million people are classified as being on the brink of famine according to the World Food Programme and other UN bodies.

Unimpeded humanitarian access is urgently needed to reverse an escalating catastrophe say the UN and the  World Food Programme.

The famine is the first to be declared since 2011 in Somalia.

The UN has warned that three other countries – Yemen, Somalia and Nigeria are at risk of famine.

The UN insists the famine  in parts of Unity State in the northern-central part of South Sudan is man made – that means its caused by conflict rather than natural conditions like drought.

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