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U.N. warns of South Sudan famine as donors pledge more aid

2014-05-20 22:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: More than a third of South Sudan's population, or 4 million people, will be on the brink of starvation by the end of 2014 as fighting rages in the world's newest country, U.N. officials said on Tuesday. "We are losing time. Farmers should be planting their crops right now," United Nations' aid chief Valerie Amos told a donors' conference in Oslo. "If they don't, and if livestock herders are not able to migrate to grazing areas, people will run out of food." Clashes between rebels and government...

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