South Sudan: World Food Programme airdrops food, warns of famine

The World Food Program says that over 40,000 people in South Sudan’s conflict-ridden Upper Nile region are “desperately” hungry.

In response, the organisation has begun dropping food by air, its first humanitarian aid delivery to the region in the last four months.

“Livelihoods have been destroyed, people have been displaced, and now people are at a real risk of famine because of the conflict,” said Mary-Ellen McGroarty, WFP’s South…