AFP: Famine and conflict risks confront south Sudan: UN
AFP reports: "Southern Sudan faces potential famine and the risk of further ethnic conflict, with over one million people already hit by serious food insecurity, the UN Children's Fund deputy head warned [...] The dry season is just beginning in the south, but people are already hungry with the failure of harvests, and the situation is expected to worsen in coming months as the few reserves of food are used up."