South Sudan Famine Threat Recedes After Rain, Relief Efforts

South Sudan has averted a famine after seasonal rains boosted food supplies and relief workers distributed aid to people displaced by nine months of conflict, while millions still face hunger, United Nations officials said.

Rains that began falling in May increased fish supplies as well as grasses, water lilies and roots for people to eat, Joyce Luma, South Sudan country director for the World Food Programme said in an interview yesterday in the capital, Juba.