UN: 40,000 Facing Starvation in South Sudan

The United Nations says at least 40,000 people in South Sudan are on the brink of starvation and urged warring parties to let aid deliveries into the country. The U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization said Monday that an additional 2.8 million people, nearly 25 percent of the country's population, are in need of food aid. The figures are part of a U.N. report on South Sudan, where more than two years of civil war have led to the deaths of tens of thousands of people and...

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