UN agency says two million to go without food aid in South Sudan

GENEVA: The World Food Programme said Tuesday that it would have to end food aid to two million people in South Sudan in the weeks because of a lack of funds. About 7.8 million people, about half of the African country’s population, struggle to get enough food each day, according to the UN agency’s assistant executive director Matthew Hollingworth. The WFP gives daily support to about three million of them and the number would fall to one million by the end of the month unless it receives “a ver