UGANDA-SSUDAN-REFUGEES-FAMINE

A local community volunteer carries a sack of seeds distributed by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the opposition controlled town of Thonyor, in Leer county, on April 11, 2017. - The United Nations warned on APril 11 of a growing risk of mass deaths from starvation among people living in conflict and drought-hit areas of the Horn of Africa, Yemen and Nigeria. An "avoidable humanitarian crisis... is fast becoming an inevitability", as the UN faces a "severe" funding shortfall to help people affected by famine, said UN refugee agency spokesman Adrian Edwards. UNHCR's operations in famine-hit South Sudan, and in Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen, which are on the brink of famine, are funded at between just three and 11 percent, he told reporters in Geneva. (Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran / AFP) (Photo by ALBERT GONZALEZ FARRAN/AFP via Getty Images)