19/05/2014
'Last Chance' Donor Conference for South Sudan Opens in Norway
Philip Aleu, Karin Zeitvogel OSLO ? Delegates from 41 donor nations began gathering in the Norwegian capital Monday for a conference to raise funds to avert famine in South Sudan. The conference marks the second time in five months that the international community is being asked to give money to address what a U.S. official who is attending the conference said is, quot;along with Syria, probably the largest, most significant crisis we#39;re facing in the world right now.quot; Jeremy Konyndyk, director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance at the U.S. Agency for International Development, said the United States will make a quot;very substantial contributionquot; at the...
