In the world’s newest country people are starving to death in massive numbers.

South Sudan faces mass hunger on a scale unimaginable. In February, the UN estimates that estimated that 100,000 South Sudanese were starving, and that an additional 5 million more have limited access to proper food and do not know where their next meal is coming from.

And that was back in Feb, the situation is thought to be growing rapidly and much worse now. Along with Nigeria, Somalia, and Yemen these four countries are thought to have 20 million human beings literally starving to death, the biggest mass famine the world has seen since World War II.

Yet the media is largely ignoring it, Yemen also faces US bombing and large scale terror attacks while South Sudan is in a state of civil war and parts of Somalia and Nigeria lay in dismay.

No profile flags, these distant black people are not the people the media, governments or even us individuals want to focus on, want to put center and ask ourselves why and how this happened.

If this inequality continues and people keep dying we can’t expect any harmony in the world on any level, whether you believe it spiritually or even just practically.

Vox wrote:

The UN has already officially declared a full-fledged famine in parts of South Sudan and warned that the other three countries will suffer mass death from food and water shortages if “prompt and sustained humanitarian intervention” doesn’t happen soon.

Second, these famines weren’t caused by natural disasters like crop failures or droughts.

They were man-made — the direct result of the bloody wars and insurgencies raging in all four countries.

The upshot is that the current famines, unlike others in recent history, could have potentially been prevented.

Washington, which has been slow to act, seems to finally be taking steps to help fight the famine. The Trump administration proposed massive funding cuts to America’s humanitarian food aid, but Congress rejected those cuts and instead allocated close to $1 billion in new funding.

In a recent interview with Vox, Michael Bowers, the vice president of humanitarian leadership and response for the aid group Mercy Corps, said the current famine was “entirely avoidable.”

“It’s entirely a man-made construct right now, and that means we have it within our power to stop that,” he said. “Wars are hard to stop; famines are not.”

On the ground here in South Sudan, the civil war that has left millions on the brink of starvation shows no signs of ending anytime soon. And that means the numbers of men, women, and children dying from lack of food will continue to increase into the indefinite future.

We can’t ignore this any longer! This could have been prevented and we need to all work to try and stop it from getting any worse for our brothers and sisters.