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South Sudan May Be on the Verge of Another Famine

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Samira

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ill-stalks-south-sudan-even-as-peace-promised

War-torn South Sudan is at risk of relapsing into famine in early 2019, United Nations agencies and a local official said, even as rival sides vow to end almost five years of brutal conflict.

About 36,000 people in Jonglei state and the former states of Western Bahr el-Ghazal and Unity may face famine between January and March, partly due to an earlier-than-normal lean season, the national statistic bureau’s chairman, Isaiah Chol Aruai, told reporters Friday in the capital, Juba. An estimated 5.2 million people may be in a “crisis hunger situation” over the same period, he said.

The warning comes as South Sudan's government and some rebels pledge to form a transitional government by May to end the civil war that began in December 2013 and has caused a humanitarian disaster. The bureau said the famine risk was especially high in the counties of Pibor, Leer and Mayendit -- the latter two of which fell into a famine in early 2017 that was quelled by large-scale relief efforts.

The extremely high levels of hunger are entirely caused by the conflict, Simon Cammelbeeck, the World Food Programme’s acting country director in South Sudan, said in a joint statement with other UN agencies. “We hope the latest peace deal will result in real changes on the ground,” he said.

Aruai said counties where access to humanitarian aid is limited are of the greatest concern. The return of civilians who fled fighting “may cause further pressure on already scarce resources on top of insecurity, poor harvests, lack of freedom of movement and extreme depletion of livelihoods,” he said.
 

Yonis

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South Sudan will basically be what southern Somalia is today.

>growing bantu population
>bantu minority emboldened & armed by neighbouring bantu countries
>violent bantu insurgency
>somalis clamp down hard on them
>bantus cry and seek sympathy from international community
>international community propose separate bantu state
>separate state granted just like southern sudan in 2011


dark times ahead
 
South Sudan will basically be what southern Somalia is today.

>growing bantu population
>bantu minority emboldened & armed by neighbouring bantu countries
>violent bantu insurgency
>somalis clamp down hard on them
>bantus cry and seek sympathy from international community
>international community propose separate bantu state
>separate state granted just like southern sudan in 2011


dark times ahead
As long as we make sure to treat them as fellow countrymen then there's no need to worry about bantus separating & creating an insurgency. Most Madows are patriotic & believe in Somalinimo and they have no intention of seperating from Somalia.
 
Somalia sending troops to South Sudan is very plausible, but it is possible the other way around. In a decade or so, Somaliland and Puntland squirmishes might reach a boiling point and they will at last go to war with each other over tiny villages with huts and homes made of cow dung and the African Union might send a contingent of South Sudanese troops as peacekeepers.
 
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Somalia sending troops to South Sudan is very plausible, but it is possible the other way around. In a decade or so, Somaliland and Puntland squirmishes might reach a boiling point and they will at last go to war with each other over tiny villages with huts and homes made of cow dung and the African Union might send a contingent of South Sudanese troops as peacekeepers.


:holeup:
 
Somalia sending troops to South Sudan is very plausible, but it is possible the other way around. In a decade or so, Somaliland and Puntland squirmishes might reach a boiling point and they will at last go to war with each other over tiny villages with huts and homes made of cow dung and the African Union might send a contingent of South Sudanese troops as peacekeepers.
:jcoleno::holeup: Aussie why you gotta hit is with the hard truth why can't you let us bullshit?:damn::mjhaps:
 

Karim

I could agree with you but then we’d both be wrong
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South Sudan will basically be what southern Somalia is today.

>growing bantu population
>bantu minority emboldened & armed by neighbouring bantu countries
>violent bantu insurgency
>somalis clamp down hard on them
>bantus cry and seek sympathy from international community
>international community propose separate bantu state
>separate state granted just like southern sudan in 2011


dark times ahead
South Sudan is a majority Bantu country bro. The largest ethnic groups such as Dinka and Neur are Bantus. In fact 90% of the population is Bantu if not more.
 

Yonis

Puntland Youth Organiser
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South Sudan is a majority Bantu country bro. The largest ethnic groups such as Dinka and Neur are Bantus. In fact 90% of the population is Bantu if not more.
Thats my point, it used to be part of Sudan....Somalia has large bantu minority in the south...... catch my drift?
 

Karim

I could agree with you but then we’d both be wrong
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Thats my point, it used to be part of Sudan....Somalia has large bantu minority in the south...... catch my drift?
Aaah.. got it. Your first sentence can be understood differently though:
"South Sudan will basically be what southern Somalia is today".... It would've been better if you put it like this: "South Somalia will basically be what south Sudan is today".
 
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