Security Council warns of famine risk and aid-worker killings in South Sudan

Nearly eight million people in South Sudan are facing crisis-level hunger, according to the source, which says this affects more than half the population. Famine risk has now been flagged in four counties as the Security Council meets this morning in New York.

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The source also reports a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 1,700 people. It says the health and food emergencies are unfolding alongside worsening insecurity.

Aid workers are being killed and abducted even as they try to reach people most at risk. The headline says South Sudan's peace deal is fraying, but the source provides no further detail on the mechanics of that deterioration.

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