More than 7.5 million people need aid in South Sudan where about 3.4 million people have been displaced by war. “Already at the beginning of the year we are facing the largest humanitarian crisis since the creation of the United Nations,” O’Brien said. Close to one million children under the age of five will be “acutely malnourished” this year. ( Sunday Alamba/ The Associated Press )“The famine in South Sudan is man-made,” he said. “To be clear, we can avert a famine,” O’Brien said.

Source: thestar March 10, 2017 22:18 UTC