Neighbouring countries are struggling to cope with the refugees crossing over from South Sudan
UN aid agencies are today appealing for $1.4bn (£1bn) to help refugees who have fled South Sudan to neighbouring countries.
South Sudan has been in the grip of a civil war since 2013 and the UN estimates that at least 1.8 million South Sudanese are now refugees, while a further two million are displaced inside the country.
In February, the UN declared famine in two South Sudanese states.
“The suffering of the South Sudanese people is just unimaginable… They are close to the abyss,” World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley said in a statement.
South Sudan has become the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis, and the countries on its borders are now struggling to cope.
In Uganda, for example, the WFP has had to cut food rations to refugee families.
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