South Sudan food survey sees 155,000 in famine within months

Refugee women from South Sudan queue as they wait to receive food from the World Food Program (WFP) in Palorinya settlement in Moyo district northern Uganda October 26, 2017. REUTERS/James Akena

GENEVA (Reuters) - South Sudan is likely to return to famine within months, with 155,000 people likely to be in a catastrophic situation between May and July, a survey by a technical working group including South Sudanese and U.N. officials said on Monday. The survey said 5.3 million people, 48 percent of the population, were already in "crisis" or "emergency" - stages three and four on a five point scale - and 155,000 could be at stage five, a famine, later this year. (Reporting by Tom Miles; Editing by Peter Graff)