WFP Aims to Help 400,000 Displaced in South Sudan

The World Food Program this week launched a nearly $58-million operation in South Sudan to provide aid to up to 400-thousand people. The U.N. agency says some of its food stocks in the country have been looted. WFP’s spokesman in Juba, George Fominyen, says the agency hopes to expand its operations daily. “WFP began providing food for displaced people within days of the outbreak of fighting. And we have already assisted at least 100,000 people in South Sudan since the conflict...

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