date:May 27, 2014
South Sudan is at a risk of famine unless humanitarian assistance is provided now, FAO Deputy Director-General for Operations Dan Gustafson told a humanitarian pledging conference for the country in Oslo.
The food security crisis in South Sudan is now worsening and spreading westward to areas previously less affected, Gustafson said, speaking at the conference co-hosted by Norway and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to galvanize support for the conflict-stricken