Famine-hit South Sudan to charge up to $10,000 for foreign work permits

By Denis DumoJUBA (Reuters) - War-ravaged South Sudan has hiked work permit fees 100-fold for foreign aid workers to $10,000, officials said, despite suffering from famine.The world's youngest nation has been mired in civil war since 2013, when President Salva Kiir fired his deputy Riek Machar, sparking a conflict that has increasingly split the country along ethnic lines.Last month, the United Nations declared that parts of the country are experiencing famine, the first time the world has faced