rung the alarm about likely famine in another flood-hit part of Jonglei state. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization representative in South Sudan, Meshak Malo, has appealed to the parties that signed the country’s peace accord to cease violence and ensure safe humanitarian access to prevent the dire situation from turning into a full-blown catastrophe.
The new report of likely famine is an eye-opener and a signal to the government, which has not endorsed its findings, said the chairman of the National Bureau of Statistics, Isaiah Chol Aruai.“There is no way that the government would ignore or downplay an emergency when it’s really found out to be an emergency,” he said..