‘Mum, we are hungry’: Woman watched two of her kids die
AP/Lekuangole, South Sudan Filed on December 24, 2020
Kallayn Keneng (front right) sits on the ground in Lekuangole town of South Sudan with three other women, all of who said their children starved to death when they were displaced from their villages due to fighting.
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Kidrich Korok cries in the yard outside her house in Lekuangole town, remembering her nine-year-old son Martin who she said starved to death in July.
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Too frail to bury her children after days without food, the South Sudanese woman covered their bodies with grass and left them in the forest
‘Mom, we need food’: Thousands in South Sudan near famine
South Sudan is one of four countries with areas that could slip into famine, the United Nations has warned, along with Yemen, Burkina Faso and northeastern Nigeria. Updated: December 24, 2020 4:17:35 pm
The UN has warned that South Sudan is one of a handful of countries facing potential famine. (AP)
After nearly a week of hiding from conflict, Kallayn Keneng watched two of her young children die. “They cried and cried and said, ‘Mom, we need food,”she said. But she had nothing to give. Too frail to bury her 5-year-old and 7-year-old after days without eating, she covered their bodies with grass and left them in the forest.
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After nearly a week of hiding from conflict, Kallayn Keneng watched two of her young children die. “They cried and cried and said, ‘Mom, we need food,'” she said. But she had nothing to give. Too frail to bury her 5-year-old and 7-year-old after days without eating, she covered their bodies with grass and left […]
24th December, 2020 11:09:36
LEKUANGOLE: After nearly a week of hiding from conflict, Kallayn Keneng watched two of her young children die. “They cried and cried and said, ‘Mom, we need food,’” she said. But she had nothing to give. Too frail to bury her 5-year-old and 7-year-old after days without eating, she covered their bodies with grass and left them in the forest, reports AP.
Now the mourning 40-year-old awaits food aid, one of more than 30,000 people said to be in likely famine in South Sudan’s Pibor county. The new finding by international food security experts means this could be the first part of the world in famine since one was declared in 2017 in another part of the country then deep in civil war.