South Sudan: little to celebrate as war and hunger mar independence day | Sam Jones

From Global development | The Guardian Wed Jul 9 2014, 01:00:05

Three years since seceding from Sudan, conflict, disease and now the prospect of famine ravage the worlds youngest country

Nyayiel Kuony Tet watches the shower of fat white sacks as they tumble from the tail of a Hercules, seesaw through the sky and hit the earth with the crack of exploding fireworks.

The bags, each stamped with the logo of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), leave craters almost a foot deep in the green and marshy ground of Leer county.

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