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| The United Nations refugee agency said Friday that the number of South Sudanese fleeing for neighboring nations had reached 715,000, more than double the number envisioned when the agency began a funding appeal four months ago for refugees from South Sudan, which has been ravaged by a civil war and is on the verge of famine. “The ongoing conflict and worsening humanitarian situation inside the world’s youngest nation is fueling a refugee exodus into Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda at a much higher rate than initially anticipated,” an agency spokeswoman, Melissa Fleming, said in a statement on the crisis in South Sudan. The agency revised its funding appeal to $658 million from the original $371 million and warned that without urgent contributions, “the consequences could be drastic.” In another barometer of the worsening crisis, the charity Save the Children warned that a cholera outbreak that first appeared two months ago had spread, infecting more than 2,600 people and killing more than 60. Pete Walsh, Save the Children’s director in South Sudan, said in a statement that the country’s overstretched health service was plagued by widespread shortages of lifesaving supplies, as “desperate parents are coming to clinics with children who are already considerably weakened by the disease.” | The United Nations refugee agency said Friday that the number of South Sudanese fleeing for neighboring nations had reached 715,000, more than double the number envisioned when the agency began a funding appeal four months ago for refugees from South Sudan, which has been ravaged by a civil war and is on the verge of famine. “The ongoing conflict and worsening humanitarian situation inside the world’s youngest nation is fueling a refugee exodus into Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda at a much higher rate than initially anticipated,” an agency spokeswoman, Melissa Fleming, said in a statement on the crisis in South Sudan. The agency revised its funding appeal to $658 million from the original $371 million and warned that without urgent contributions, “the consequences could be drastic.” In another barometer of the worsening crisis, the charity Save the Children warned that a cholera outbreak that first appeared two months ago had spread, infecting more than 2,600 people and killing more than 60. Pete Walsh, Save the Children’s director in South Sudan, said in a statement that the country’s overstretched health service was plagued by widespread shortages of lifesaving supplies, as “desperate parents are coming to clinics with children who are already considerably weakened by the disease.” |