A third of South Sudanese face starvation as conflict rages: U.N

By Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) - More than a third of South Sudan's population, four million people, will be on the edge of starvation by the end of the year as fighting rages on in the world's newest country, U.N. officials said on Tuesday. Farmers should be planting their crops right now," Valerie Amos, the United Nations' aid chief, 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." Violence erupted in the oil-producing country in December following a long power struggle between President Salva Kiir and his sacked deputy Riek Machar. But it quickly broke down and World Food Program's assistant executive director Elisabeth Rasmusson told Reuters she had reports fresh clashes broke out in the town of Malakal on Monday night. Read More http://ift.tt/1p9djcO