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Looting in Paris As Europeans Protest Against Gaza Conflict Thousands Rally to Oppose Israel’S Offensive INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, JULY 22, 2014 Emaciated children in South Sudan point to looming famine LEER: A surge in the number of emaciated children arriv- Her three-year-old son weighs just 2 kg because of Food Prices Soar While there has been some small-scale crop planting ing at a feeding centre in Leer, a muddy rebel-held town acute malnutrition, whereas a healthy three-year-old in South Sudan sits on Africa’s third-biggest oil reserves in the last couple of months, Leer County rebel commis- in South Sudan’s oil-rich Unity State, is fuelling fears that South Sudan would normally weigh 10-12 kg, according and the United States and other Western backers hailed sioner Peter Keak Jal said the effort was not enough to the world’s newest nation is on the brink of famine. to a paediatrician in Juba. independence from Sudan three years ago as a foreign feed the population. “We are approaching the end of Food stocks are running low across conflict-ravaged The United Nations has warned for months that a policy success. But political turmoil and conflict threaten the year so there will be no good food,” Jal said. “It’s northern regions of the country, aid workers say, and the famine looms if there is no end to fighting that erupted in to plunge the country back into the same cycle of war going to be hard.” The U.N. World Food Programme onset of the rainy season has dashed hopes that South mid-December between the government and rebels. and human misery that plagued its people when it was declared a famine in the region in 2008 due to drought. Sudan’s displaced subsistence farmers will plant enough More than a third of the nation’s roughly 11 million peo- still part of Sudan and rebels were fighting the northern Famine is defined as when acute malnutrition exceeds crops to feed themselves. ple could be on the brink of starvation by the end of the government in Khartoum. 30 percent of the population and the deaths exceed The country is the size of France but has hardly any year, U.N. officials have said. At least 10,000 people have been killed and more two people per 10,000 each day, among other criteria. paved roads and the United Nations and humanitarian Aid agencies, who say funds to deal with the crisis are than a million displaced since clashes between rival army Rebels blame the government for violating two agencies are struggling to provide aid to remote regions. running low, complain work has been hindered by rebel factions broke out in December. Foreign investment has ceasefires agreed earlier this year and for driving the Even plane deliveries are dwindling as rain soddens dirt and government soldiers who have looted vehicles and collapsed and the cost of the war has crippled the gov- nation to disaster. The government accuses the rebels roads that act as air strips. plundered food stores. “We lost all our nine cars,” said ernment’s budget. In Unity state, rebels loyal to former of sparking the conflict. “It is of course the rebels to Aid agencies say South Sudan, which gained inde- Sabrina Sharmin, an acting coordinator for Medecins vice president Machar have seized oil wells and halted blame, they are now in flagrant violation of the cessa- pendence from Sudan in 2011 after decades of conflict, Sans Frontieres (MSF), speaking in Leer last week. production. At Leer market, a handful of makeshift shops tion of hostilities,” Information Minister Michael Makuei could be headed for the worst famine since the 1984 “Delivering (supplies) from the airstrip to our compound sell millet, soap and even music CDs, a rare sign of nor- told Reuters in Juba, adding that only three of the 10 Ethiopian famine. The charity Medecins Sans Frontieres is challenging; we are now using donkey carts.” mality in a town devastated by clashes between govern- South Sudanese states would be affected. (Doctors Without Borders) said it had treated about 1,800 The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian ment and rebel troops. Both sides have accused the other of violating two malnourished children at its feeding centre in Leer since Affairs (OCHA) said aid agencies in Leer were treating But Kuel Nin, 34, a sorghum seller, said days would ceasefire deals - one in January and another in May. mid-May. In 2013 it treated 2,300 children during the more than 1,000 cases of child malnutrition every month. pass without customers purchasing anything. With roads The blame game holds little significance for Jared whole year. Before violence broke out in December it was about 40 blocked and river transport too dangerous as barges Tut. He fled Leer town after government troops In relief agency feeding centres, mothers seeking per month. Western diplomats say the looming famine is have often been attacked, prices of basic commodities in attacked early in the year. He is now lying in an MSF-run medical help for skeletal children tell harrowing tales of “man made” and avoidable. But they expect thousands to rural South Sudan have risen out of reach for many. hospital after diving into a river and being bitten by a life in the bush, where they could only scavenge for fruit die and much of the country to suffer as neither President “It is expensive,” said Nin, standing near a towering crocodile. or roots. “We ran and hid in the bush for months without Salva Kiir or rebel leader Riek Machar appear ready to tree shading two abandoned and rusting military tanks, “My house near the market was burned down (in the food,” said one woman who fled fighting in the Leer strike a lasting peace deal. baking in the midday heat. “People suffer hunger, they fighting) and I still cannot find my wife and child,” he region. “We were eating wild berries and plant roots.” have no money.” said in hospital. — Reuters Murdoch tabloid suspends ‘fake sheikh’ UK reporter LONDON: Mazher Mahmood, a British journalist mer editor Andy Coulson and two other senior journal- known for his undercover work posing as a “fake ists were jailed for the hacking scandal following an sheikh”, was suspended by Rupert Murdoch’s Sun news- eight month trial. paper yesterday after the collapse of a celebrity trial in Rebekah Brooks, who later ran Murdoch’s British which he was a main witness. newspaper arm now called News UK, was acquitted of His suspension comes just weeks after the editor involvement, often cited Mahmood’s work during her and senior journalists from a now-defunct Murdoch defence as examples of good investigative journalism. tabloid were jailed for their part in a phone-hacking Mahmood carried out the inquiry which led to the scandal which led to demands for action over the “dark 2011 conviction of three Pakistani cricketers for taking arts” of Britain’s aggressive tabloid press. bribes to fix incidents in a match against England. In his Mahmood, well-known for revealing wrongdoing most famous exclusive in 2001, he posed as an Arab amongst politicians, celebrities and even royalty, had sheikh to dupe Sophie, Countess of Wessex, who is mar- given evidence in the trial of Tulisa Contostavlos, a for- ried to Queen Elizabeth’s youngest son Prince Edward, mer judge on the British version of the “X Factor” TV tal- into making indiscreet comments about other mem- ent show. bers of the royal family and senior politicians. She had denied being involved in the supply of Contostavlos, who found fame in Britain as a singer drugs to Mahmood while he posed as a film producer, with the hip-hop act N-Dubz, said his “entrapment” tac- but her trial collapsed on Monday, with the judge say- tics should be outlawed. ing he suspected the reporter had lied to the court. “We have now succeeded in exposing the real cul- “The Sun, of course, takes the judge’s remarks very prit and most importantly the real liar,” she said outside seriously. Mr Mahmood has been suspended pending London’s Southwark Crown Court. an immediate internal investigation,” a spokesman for “I urge both police and News UK to investigate the newspaper said. Mazher Mahmood and his team and to put an end to Mahmood previously worked for Murdoch’s News of his deceit in pursuit of sensational stories for commer- the World tabloid which the media mogul was forced to cial gain.” shut in 2011 when it was disclosed journalists had Despite suspending Mahmood, the paper said it hacked voicemails on mobile phones of thousands of stood by the way in which the story was investigated. people, including that belonging to a murdered school- “We are very disappointed with this outcome, but LES FLANADES: People walk, yesterday, in Sarcelles, a northern Paris suburb, near a restaurant of a shopping center in Les Flanades girl, to find exclusive stories. do believe the original investigation was conducted neighborhood, damaged on Sunday after a rally against Israel’s Gaza offensive descended into violence pitting an angry pro- That led to a public inquiry into press ethics and within the bounds of the law and the industry’s code,” Palestinian crowd against local Jewish businesses. — AFP demands for reform. Earlier this month, the paper’s for- its spokesman said. — Reuters Looting in Paris as Europeans protest against Gaza conflict Thousands rally to oppose Israel’s offensive SARCELLES: A French rally against the deadly Some commentators in France, and the left- the violence that unfolded “justifies all the more Israeli offensive in Gaza once again descended wing party which helped organise Saturday’s the brave choice by the interior ministry to ban a into chaos yesterday as protesters looted shops march, railed against the ban, particularly as oth- demonstration.” and riot police lobbed tear gas and rubber bul- er protests in France and Europe took place Speaking as he commemorated the anniver- lets into the crowds.
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