3.7 million citizens of South Sudan food crisis

3.7 million citizens of South Sudan food crisis

The United Nations estimates that 3.7 million people are threatened with starvation in the South been returned as a result of civil conflict simmering .

The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan , Toby Lanzer told the BBC that aid worth $ 1.3 million ( 15 billion ) is needed to overcome this crisis .

The new violence erupted in South Sudan last December 15 due to conflicts between armed groups .

Click thousands of people have already died as a result of this chaos , and approximately 860,000 local residents to flee .

Lanzer said the joint force was also devastated the local economy .
" Because the market is disrupted , people who are used to living under very difficult conditions , ( now ) they could no longer move as freely as before , " he added .

" In mid-December plainly ... no one could have predicted the scale of the emergency would be this bad . We do everything in her power to prevent a disaster , " he said .

The number of those at risk do not have a food ingredient suspected to account for one third of the total population of South Sudan .

Due to the severity of this crisis in Malakal town , some residents raided a storage shed and help " take their own food " ||BBC