After three years of civil conflict and with rampant inflation, now a third of the population needs food aid
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South Sudan plunged into civil conflict in December 2013
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Once privileged military families now going hungry
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Inflation wipes out value of wages, despite increases
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"Men in uniform" pillage aid stores as famine looms
By Katharine Houreld
JUBA, Feb 14 - Three years into a civil war and with inflation above 800 percent, South Sudan's government is struggling to pay its troops. When delayed wages finally arrive, the cash is so devalued it barely buys food for a week.
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