What's Causing South Sudan's Hunger Crisis? NowThis World Reports | NowThis World

We're talking about South Sudan in this episode of NowThis World. We've come to The Kakuma Refugee camp in northern Kenya, just 80 miles away from South Sudan's border, to speak to some of the people who've recently fled South Sudan to find out more about this crisis.
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Over a million people in South Sudan are at risk of severe hunger - again.

And while hunger has always troubled the young country, the link between it and conflict has meant that more South Sudanese people are hungry now - more than ever before

Hunger isn't a new issue for this country. It has experienced waves of drought, famine and severe hunger as recently as 2017. And these issues have only been exacerbated by South Sudan's civil war.

In 2013, just two years after South Sudan became independent, then-president Salva Kiir dissolved his entire cabinet and accused then-Vice President Riek Machar of planning a failed coup.

Salva Kiir is an ethnic Dinka, the country's largest group, while Machar is from Nuer, the second largest community. The political quarrel eventually turned into ethnic violence.

The fighting has displaced over 4 million South Sudanese, exacerbated human needs and HALTED relief operations.

One challenge the nation faces every year are the seasons. South Sudanese rely on dry seasons for harvest and refer to the rainy seasons as the hunger season, because it's the time they rely on stored food before the next harvest.

This year's harvest is THE SMALLEST on record since the country was formed in 2011.

Over the past few years, a number of peace talks have been held with little results.

Although ending the war may not solve all food insecurity issues in the country, one thing is clear, the war ending would be a step in the right direction.

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