Famine Is the Final Straw as War-Weary South Sudanese Flood Capital
- Declaration of mass hunger was world’s first since 2011
- Civilians flee to Juba as three-year conflict hits farming
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Since South Sudan’s war erupted, Mary Nyal’s husband has vanished and she narrowly escaped being raped by armed men. But it was looming famine that finally forced her to flee her home county and live hand-to-mouth in the capital.
“I had no way of getting food to eat,” the 33-year-old mother of three said as she clutched her baby to her chest and asked passers-by for change in a market in central Juba. “The last time I reached my field to harvest was in 2015.”