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Parts of South Sudan suffering famine 2017-02-20 07:07:05 Post No. 113364
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http://in.reuters.com/article/us-southsudan-famine-idINKBN15Z0OE
>Parts of war-ravaged South Sudan are suffering famine, a government official said on Monday, adding nearly half the country's population would lack reliable access to affordable food by July.
>South Sudan has been mired in civil war since 2013, when President Salva Kiir fired his deputy. Since then the conflict has increasingly split the country along ethnic lines, leading the United Nations to warn of a potential genocide.
>The fighting has prevented many farmers from harvesting their crops, and hyperinflation, which reached more than 800 percent last year, has put the price of imported food beyond the reach of many.
>Parts of the country have also been hit by drought.
>“In greater Unity (state), some counties are classified in famine or ... risk of famine,” Isaiah Chol Aruai, chairman of South Sudan’s National Bureau of Statistics, told a news conference in Juba.
>Aruai said some 4.9 million people were expected to become "food insecure" between February and April, with that number rising to 5.5 million by July.
>"Famine has become a tragic reality in parts of South Sudan and our worst fears have been realized," Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) South Sudan representative, Serge Tissot, said at the news conference.
>The United Nations defines famine as when at least 20 percent of households in an area face extreme food shortages, acute malnutrition rates exceed 30 percent, and two or more people per 10,000 are dying per day.
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>The fighting has uprooted more than 3 million people and a U.N. report released on Monday said continuing displacement presented "heightened risks of prolonged (food) underproduction into 2018".
>South Sudan is rich in oil resources. But, six years after independence from neighboring Sudan, there are only 200 km (120 miles) of paved roads in a nation the size of Texas. In the fighting, food warehouses have been looted and aid workers killed.
>Kiir's government has been hit by high-profile defections. Two top military officials resigned their positions last week, citing ethnic favoritism, human rights abuses and other charges.
>Brigadier General Kamila Otwari Aleardo Paul, who had been in charge of logistic support in the military, also resigned on Monday, accusing the government of tribalism.
>Lul Ruai Koang, spokesman for the armed forces, said the three defections would not hamper the operations of the military.
>"The military is not a one-man show," he told a news conference, adding it was not clear which country in the region the military officials had gone to.
>Punishments handed out to some soldiers from the Dinka, Kiir's tribe, for crimes including rape and murder were being set aside, said Colonel Khalid Ono Loki, one of officials who resigned. The minister of labor has also defected to the rebels.Lul Ruai Koang, spokesman for the armed forces, said the three defections would not hamper the operations of the military.
>"The military is not a one-man show," he told a news conference, adding it was not clear which country in the region the military officials had gone to.
>Punishments handed out to some soldiers from the Dinka, Kiir's tribe, for crimes including rape and murder were being set aside, said Colonel Khalid Ono Loki, one of officials who resigned. The minister of labor has also defected to the rebels.
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>>113364
Death by starvation is painful.
Every day more people have less while a few have more.
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>>113407
>>113407
>>>113364 (OP)
>Death by starvation is painful.
>Every day more people have less while a few have more.
Tell that to the billions of people in India, China, Russia, and post-soviet countries, whos lives have been improving for the past 28 years thanks to free market & capitalism.
Those niggers starve because we feed them, they keep making babies, than we feed them again, and thwy make even more babies, and this cycle contiunes since the 60's.
Greetings from Poland
P.S. kill yourself.
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>>113414
Jesus christ calm down
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>>113417
Dont say stupid shit? Maybe try that.
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>>113417
Sorry, such additude irritates me.
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>>113414
>Yugoslavia and Ukraine are doing a WHOLE lot better since capitalizm came by and saved those poor dirty commies
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