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2020-10-08 Africa Subsaharan

UN 'outraged' by attack on food aid convoy in South Sudan

[AlAhram] The UN has warned that South Sudan is one of a handful of countries facing potential famine

The U.N. World Food Program says it is ``outraged'' by an attack on a convoy carrying food aid in South Sudan that left one crew member missing and three with gunshot wounds.

A statement says the attack occurred Monday as the WFP convoy of boats was carrying food aid to Melut and Malakal in the north to assist hundreds of thousands of people displaced by recent flooding.

The missing crew member is presumed dead, the WFP statement says. It does not give details about the attackers. Country director Matthew Hollingworth called on South Sudanese authorities to hold those responsible for ``this unspeakable violence.''

South Sudan remains one of the world's most dangerous places for humanitarian workers and one of the most precarious nations. Two years after the end of a civil war that killed nearly 400,000 people, roughly half the population is hungry.

The U.N. has warned that South Sudan is one of a handful of countries facing potential famine.

The U.N. and other aid organizations have repeatedly called on South Sudanese authorities to make it safer and easier to move around the country. Deadly intercommunal violence continues, and a peace deal signed two years ago faces delays in implementation.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-10-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 "Well, that's done. Now when is the buffet?"

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-10-08 08:33|| 2020-10-08 08:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Intercommunal violence. South Sudan should be broken into three states to end the killing. The Dinka will never live with the Nuer and vice versa. The Equatorial tribes want little to do with either. Thus you have three states: West Nile for Dinka, East Nile for Nuer and Shilluk, and Equatoria for the various tribes of the far south.

Posted by Angoluling Ulealing4735 2020-10-08 09:50|| 2020-10-08 09:50|| Front Page Top

#3 ^And then they'll be able to fight with regular armies.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-10-08 09:51|| 2020-10-08 09:51|| Front Page Top

#4 g - an ignorant statement. The Dinka and Nuer have had regular armies and fought Khartoum from the date of Sudan's independence in 1950 until the recent independence of South Sudan. They damn well know how to use modern weapons.

Posted by Angoluling Ulealing4735 2020-10-08 19:08|| 2020-10-08 19:08|| Front Page Top

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