AFRICA STARVATION : South Sudan Food Crisis May Affect Up To 5.3 Million People, WFP Says.... The number of people affected will nearly double from the first three months of the year....If Donald Trump becomes President of the USA, they would all starve to death.

05/09/2016 12:19 pm ET

GENEVA (Reuters) - Up to 5.3 million people in South Sudan may face a severefood shortages during this year’s lean season, the U.N. World Food Programme said on Monday, nearly double the number in the first three months of the year.

The United Nations World Food Programme warned
 on Monday
 that as many as 5.3 million people in South Sudan may
 face severe
 food shortages.

From January to March, 2.8 million people were classed as being in “crisis“ or “emergency” food situations, with about 40,000 thought to be suffering an outright famine.

The rising hunger comes despite attempts to end more than two years of war, which started in December 2013 when President Salva Kiir sacked his first vice president Riek Machar, triggering ethnically charged violence.

Some fighting continues, but Kiir was able to name a new cabinet in late April, including former rebels and members of the opposition, after Machar returned to Juba and got back his old job.

“Internal food security analysis shows that South Sudan will face the most severe lean season in 2016 since its independence, driven by insecurity, poor harvests, and displacement in some areas of the country,” said a WFP report published on Monday.

“As many as 5.3 million people may face severe food insecurity, with particular areas of concern in the non-conflict affected states of Northern Bahr el Ghazal and Eastern Equatoria.”

During the 2015 lean season, which runs from March to September, about 4.6 million people were classed as severely “food insecure”, WFP said previously.

The most severe conditions are in Unity State, where a team of food security experts found a risk of “widespread catastrophe” during a visit late last year.

The United Nations says 1.69 million South Sudanese are displaced within the country and another 712,000 have fled into neighbouring countries. The U.N. humanitarian plan for South Sudan has received only 27 percent of the $1.29 billion needed.

With Donald Trump as the Republican party standard bearer in the upcoming election, if he were to be elected as President of the USA all these people would stave to death becaude Trump will not support projects like this to help feed the hungry ones. more