The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has started life-saving air drops of food for refugees in South Sudan. Ertharin Cousin, the WFP director, said the air drops began today in Maban County of South Sudan's Upper Nile State.
Enough food was supplied to feed over 2,000 refugees for a month. More
supplies are on the way. Cousin said today, "This is the first in a
series of airdrops that aims to replenish rapidly diminishing food
stocks for more than 100,000 people who have fled the fighting north of
the border."
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