UN Officials Cite ‘Race Against Time’ to Prevent Humanitarian Catastrophe in South Sudan

GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–3 April 2014. With no political solution to the conflict that has torn South Sudan apart in sight, senior United Nations officials working in the country stressed today that they are in a “race against time” ahead of the rainy season to help prevent a health and hunger catastrophe.

Hilde Johnson, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative and head of the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), told a news conferencein the capital,…