South Sudan receives emergency food aid to avert famine – in pictures
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 Committee of the Red Cross. These airdrops, the first by the ICRC for nearly two decades, are an effort to reach hundreds of thousands of people afflicted by conflict, disease and impending famine in the world's youngest country, which celebrates its third independence on Wednesday. Photographs by Nichole Sobecki for AFP/Getty