UN aid agencies appeal for $1.4 billion to help refugees who have fled South Sudan

  UN aid agencies are appealing for $1.4 billion to help refugees who have fled South Sudan to neighbouring countries. 
  South Sudan has been in the grip of a civil war since 2013 and the UN estimates that at least 1.8 million South Sudanese are now refugees, while a further two million persons are displaced inside the country. 
  Executive Director of World Food Programme, David Beasley, today said in a statement that the suffering of the South Sudanese people is just unimaginable.
South Sudan has become the world's fastest growing refugee crisis, and the countries on its borders are now struggling to cope.