Reuters: Emergency food aid, normal rainfall and the start of the harvest have helped to stave off famine in South Sudan, the latest analysis shows, but there is a risk of mass starvation in early 2015.
Aid agencies scrambled to avert famine in South Sudan by launching the worlds largest humanitarian operation after fighting erupted in the world's youngest country in December.
Some 10,000 people have died and 1.7 million, one seventh of the population, have been displaced since conflict broke out between...