Famine
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South Sudan heads towards famine amid ‘descent into lawlessness’
15 Aug 2014: Andrew Green: Urgent need for peace ignored as another deadline for a deal passes and splinter groups of rebels threaten to spread conflict
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Guardian Professional, 4 Aug 2014:More people will die before a famine is formally declared yet no declaration means little media attention and even less funding, warns Davina Jeffrey
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31 Jul 2014: Maaza Mengiste: A single photo focused the world’s attention on Sudan in 93. As Gaza and MH17 dominate, Africa’s horrors remain invisible
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15 Jul 2014:
Kim Jong-un has vowed that North Korea will "never have to tighten its belt again". But can this isolated, autocratic and impoverished country escape the ghosts of famine?
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9 Jul 2014: David Miliband: Three years into independence, millions are short on food and hundreds of thousands are afraid to go home. The youngest country on Earth needs us now more than ever
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9 Jul 2014:
More than 40 tons of emergency food supplies and seed – enough to feed
1,100 families – have been delivered to Leer, northern South Sudan, by
the International Red Cross
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9 Jul 2014:
Three years since seceding from Sudan, conflict, disease and now the prospect of famine ravage the world’s youngest country. Sam Jones reports
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Guardian Professional,
26 Jun 2014:
Community food banks in Niger - run exclusively by women - are reducing the impact of the food crisis on local communities
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16 Jun 2014:
UN says it needs almost $2bn to save thousands of lives threatened by violence, diseases and looming famine
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13 Jun 2014:
Mina Yoon escaped North Korea in 2010. During the 1990s, when around one million people died from starvation, she recalls how her family ate tree bark and rice roots to survive
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Guardian Professional, 30 May 2014: 26 - 30 May: Been offline? Catch up on the development-related news, images, infographics and reports that matter
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Guardian Professional, 21 May 2014: Conflict and fears of famine have led donors to pledge $600m to South Sudan. Get the full story on the Oslo conference
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21 May 2014: Sum raised will go towards $1.8bn needed to stem humanitarian crisis, but doubts linger over commitment to peace
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17 May 2014:
Aid agencies say South Sudan at 'tipping point' as ethnic violence puts millions of people at risk of starvation and disease
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16 May 2014: Immediate injection of $500m needed to halt descent into famine, as food shortages and violence wreak devastation
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12 May 2014:
Continued violence prevents delivery of vital supplies, leaving up to 3.7 million people in critical need of humanitarian assistance
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