UN: South Sudan is blocking desperately needed food aid

"People have been displaced, brutalised and raped. They have been attacked when they sought out assistance. This must stop, and it must stop now."

South Sudan's government is blocking desperately needed food aid and restricting United Nations peacekeepers, according to the UN.

An internal report from UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres to members of the Security Council obtained by the Associated Press shows the daunting conditions faced by the international community as it tries to combat a catastrophe in the troubled East African nation.