$4.4 billion required to prevent famine, says U.N chief
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February 22, 2017 (JUBA) - The United Nations needs at least $4.4
billion by the end of next month to prevent "a catastrophe" of hunger
and famine in South Sudan, Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen, its
newly-appointed Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, said.
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António Guterres (UN photo)
More than 20 million people face starvation in the four countries and
action is urgently needed now to avert a humanitarian disaster,
Guterres said on Wednesday.
"We need $4.4 billion by the end of March to avert a catastrophe," he said.
According to Guterres, the world body has only managed to raise $90m
of what it needs.
Three U.N agencies and South Sudan government on Monday declared
famine in parts of the country, with an estimated 5 million said to be
at the verge of facing starvation.
The UN children’s agency UNICEF said almost 1.4 million children
acutely malnourished in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen could
die from famine in coming months.
"The situation is dire," stressed Guterres.
"Millions of people are barely surviving in the space between
malnutrition and death, vulnerable to diseases and outbreaks, forced
to kill their animals for food and eat the grain they saved for next
year’s seeds," he added.
In South Sudan, tens of thousands of people have been killed and
nearly two million displaced in the country’s worst ever outbreak of
violence since it seceded from Sudan.
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24 February 10:23, by Midit Mitot
Yes, this is good money for these poor nations but don,t try to
linkup with those gang in Juba, they will either divert it to Warrap
or looted in a funny way that you would not understand.
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24 February 14:01, by Kuch
Mr. Midit Mitot,
How do some of Nuers feel about being always depending on
foreign handouts? Don’t you idiots have shame in your whole lives? Now
you are happy that other people who work very hard for their money are
going to help idiots because you are simply too lazy to grow your own
damn food>>>
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24 February 14:06, by Kuch
You have asked time and time again to stop your damn
aimless armed rebellion and get out of these filthy so-called UN
compounds, but you fools just like cross your damn arms and fold your
sorry legs and yabber day and night about corruption and Dinkas/Jaangs
this and Dinkas/Jaangs that while doing nothing to help your sorry
selves?>>>
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24 February 14:11, by Kuch
Even if the government of South Sudan has the whole
money on earth to distribute freely to you fools. How would some of
you lazies going use the money if there food to buy from the markets?
The food that is brought from countries like Kenya, Uganda and others
is grown by human beings like us, but some of people just want to live
on free things from other people have a look on these links:
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24 February 14:24, by Kuch
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/23/the-guardian-view-on-famine-sitting-by-as-disaster-unfolds
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/feb/20/famine-declared-in-south-sudan
http://c.newsnow.co.uk/A/873518554?-21266:8599:0
http://c.newsnow.co.uk/A/873497989?-21266:8599:0
Those links above and many more others>>>
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24 February 14:29, by Kuch
and many more others a very irritating to some
other South Sudanese who just don’t like the culture depending on
foreign aids. All the abuses of all kind will be thrown at all the
South Sudanese people by the donors because there are some fools and
lazies who just don’t want to farm their damn lands to grow their damn
own food to feed themselves but to always>>>
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24 February 14:35, by Kuch
keep breeding and project their miserable
photos to be taken by the Europeans and Americans so that their photos
would be taken Europe, America and the whole world and screened on the
TVs to cajoled others people around the world to donate their hard
earned money to help other fellow human beings who even have a hand i
their own misery>>>
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24 February 14:41, by Kuch
I am not too on the Nuers only here,
other communities like the Murles do not even know how to grow their
own food all their lives. But the Nuers are more partly to blame on
this current crises. They will not accept their own faults because in
the Nuer culture, it everything is always a Dinkas/Jaangs fault.
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24 February 14:47, by Kuch
Riek Machar himself, when he was
in Juba lastly even plainly told the Nuers in these filthy so-called
UN compounds to remain there until the US, the UK, the UN and the NGOs
distribute them with free money and item and then they can get out and
go home! Really? Do the US, the UK, the UN and the NGOs owe anything
to Nuers? Probably that was why Riek Machar, Pagan Amuom and others>>>
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24 February 14:56, by Kuch
wanted to hand over our
country to the US, the UK, the UN and NGOs. And it is the reasons why
the US, the UK, their UN and their sleazy NGOs are more interested in
Leer, Wau Shilluk and Yei because these are the areas where the
UN-NGOs government is wanted. I just can’t understand how many of our
people understand what the UN really is? Pathetic indeed.
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24 February 15:05, by jubaone
Kuch,
It is the first time I am learning that other than
jienges, there are "lazy" people out there. I thought much of the WFP
airdrops were being flown straight to Gok Machar, Turalei, Aweil
Mading and other jienge heartlands. I now understand why most jienges
have stiff necks cos of looking into the sky all day expecting
airdrops.
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