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June 17th, 2015 
David Schulberg
“Six months ago, we thought that violence and suffering had peaked and that peace was on the horizon. We were wrong,” said Toby Lanzer, AFP reported.
“Political intransigence left peace ever more distant; war raged on and is leading to economic collapse,” he added.
Civil war began in December 2013 when President Salva Kiir accused his former deputy Riek Machar of planning a coup, setting off a cycle of retaliatory killings across the country that has split the poverty-stricken, landlocked country along ethnic lines.
“In half of the country, one in three children are acutely malnourished and 250,000 children face starvation,” Lanzer added, in a report urging donors to contribute to a $1.63 billion aid appeal, saying South Sudan ranked “lower in terms of human development than just about every other place on earth.”
Two-thirds of the country’s 12 million people need aid, with 4.5 million people facing severe food insecurity, according to the UN.
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