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To promote his Sunday column , Nick Kristof tweeted the following : @NickKristof Help spread the word about Sudan starving its people in Nuba Mtains, w/800,000 eating just leavesnyti.ms/L9ayBA The tweet raises the question: Are 800,000 people eating justleaves* in the Nuba Mountain? Kristof writes: Ryan Boyette , an American aid worker who stayed behind when foreigners wereordered to evacuate, estimates that 800,000 Nuba have run out offood in South Kordofan, the state encompassing the Nuba Mountains.Boyette has created a local reporting network called Eyes and Ears Nuba , and the Sudanese government showed what it thinks of him when ittried to drop six bombs on his house last month. The notoriously inaccurate bombs missed,and he escaped unhurt in his foxhole.Boyette has done remarkablework by providing on-the-ground reports from the Nuba Mountains.The network that he has created is doing some impressive workdocumenting the atrocities committed in the region. As far as I cantell, nobody is doing nearly as good of a job as Boyette when itcomes to gathering information related to the consequences of theaggression by the Sudanese government. According to the Sudanese government , just under 1.1 million people live in South Kordofan state, wherethe Nuba Mountains are located. If Boyette's estimates are correct,that means three quarters of the people living in the region arehave run out of food. A Reuters article from mid-May puts the number much lower: Civil society leaders in the Nuba Mountains, a jigsaw ofcommunities mixing Muslims, Christians and others practisingtraditional African beliefs, estimate that out of the 350,000displaced by the fighting as many as 100,000 are hiding in caves,eating tree leaves, sap and wild fruits. They say some are startingto die from hunger. It seems that 100,000 seems to be a more appropriate estimate whichalso closely mirrors the 10% severe malnutrition rate that Kristofreports as having been recorded at the Yida refugee camp in South Sudan . The latest estimates from the Famine Early Warning System networkestimates food insecurity in the region as follows:. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as E27 Light Fitting Manufacturer , Indoor LED Spotlights for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Outdoor LED Flood Lights.
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