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100,000 people facing starvation in South Sudan – UN

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Three UN agencies said on Monday declared famine in parts of South Sudan.

According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the UN children’s fund UNICEF and the World Food Programme (WFP) said no fewer than 100,000 people are facing starvation in parts of violence-plagued South Sudan.

“Famine is currently affecting parts of Unity State in the northern-central part of the country.

“A formal famine declaration means people have already started dying of hunger,” the three agencies said.

An additional one million are on the brink of famine in several parts of the country, where farming has been hampered since a military conflict erupted between President Salva Kiir and his former deputy, Riek Machar, in December 2013.

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