UN Sends Emergency Food Aid Teams to South Sudan

The United Nations is sending emergency food aid to remote areas in South Sudan where it says "a hunger catastrophe" is in the making. Teams from the U.N. Children's Fund and the World Food Program will go to Jonglei, Unity and Upper Nile, three states where the U.N. says up to 75 percent of people have trouble finding food. The U.N. representative in South Sudan, Jonathan Veitch, said people in these areas are walking, sometimes for days, without anything to eat. He says...

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