White House: U.S. to provide $180 million for food in South Sudan

Children walk through mud in the internally displaced persons camp inside the United Nations base in MalakalThe United States will provide approximately $180 million on Tuesday to help feed the people of South Sudan, the White House said, citing a risk of famine there. "The people of South Sudan are suffering because of the inability of South Sudan’s leaders to put their people’s interests above their own," U.S. national security adviser Susan Rice said in a statement.