South Sudan crisis among gravest in history, says UN
by Sam Jones

The Guardian    Translate This Article
16 May 2014

On 16 May 2014 The Guardian reported: The crisis engulfing South Sudan is greater than those endured by Darfur or the Central African Republic, according to a senior UN diplomat who says the world urgently needs to donate at least another $500m (£298m) if the country's slide into humanitarian disaster and famine is to be halted. Thousands of people have been killed, more than a million displaced, and almost five million are in dire need of humanitarian assistance as a result of ethnic violence in the world's youngest nation. Aid and development agencies are warning of a possible future famine in three violence-ridden states. Toby Lanzer, the deputy special representative of the UN secretary general in South Sudan, said the situation was the most desperate he had seen. 'What we are facing is a crisis or an emergency far bigger than I have ever had to deal with -- and I used to work in Darfur and the Central African Republic,' he said. 'It is simply no exaggeration to say that we are currently facing one of the most severe tests that the international aid community has ever faced.' His bleak assessment of the crisis echoes that of the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, who warned last week that if the conflict continued half of South Sudan's 12 million people would be either 'displaced internally, refugees abroad, starving or dead by the year's end'. The violence -- which began in December after President Salva Kiir accused his vice-president, Riek Machar, of plotting to overthrow him -- has split the country along ethnic lines, sparking clashes between Kiir's Dinkas and Machar's Nuers. Global Good News service views this news as the failure of modern world peace systems. Such 'flops' highlight the need for more intelligent, evolutionary, Natural Law based, life-supporting systems.

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