Three-quarters of the population of South Sudan needs humanitarian aid after four days of deadly fighting, the UN's World Food Programme director Etharin Cousin told on Tuesday July 12,2016
Between Friday July 08,2016 and Monday July 11,2016, the capital Juba was rocked by clashes between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and his longtime opponent Vice President Riek Machar.
The two men finally announced a ceasefire late on Monday.
"Three quarters of the population of South Sudan is in need of humanitarian assistance," Cousin told AFP in the Jordanian capital Amman.
"This latest conflict is going to push even more people into hunger and despair," she warned.
On June 29,2016 -- before the latest violence erupted -- both the United Nations and the Juba government said that more than a third of South Sudanese face starvation as the nation runs the risk of a full-blown famine.
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