View a photo essay and video by the IRC’s Peter Biro of near famine conditions in Ganyiel, a town in northern Unity State, where thousands of people have fled the fighting—and have been reduced to eating water lilies, roots and grass to survive.
The fighting in South Sudan could not have come at a worse time. Devastating flooding across South Sudan has washed away crops, leaving nothing to harvest. As a result, the U.N. warns that nearly 7 million people are at risk of hunger while 3.7 million are at risk of imminent starvation.