South Sudanese eat leaves to survive as hunger bites hard

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In the morning, displaced women from Mayendit, South Sudan, collect wild grass and leaves in Rumbek to secure a meal for the day. With no money to buy sorghum and no humanitarian assistance in the first days following their displacement in Rumbek, new arrivals are forced to eat whatever food they find in order to survive, including fodder for grazing animals.

A humanitarian aid agency on Monday said hunger forces South Sudanese to eat leaves from trees as food runs out even in crisis areas where famine has not been declared.

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said that children and others in a community outside Aweil Centre County in the north of the country where its staff visited are surviving on trees and seed stocks.

NRC’s Country Director in South Sudan, Rehana Zawar said that eating barely edible wild foods is a coping strategy for communities trying to survive a food…

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