Famine-hit South Sudan rebuked over move to raise fees for aid workers

Aid agencies condemn mooted hundredfold increase in cost of permits despite earlier promise to allow ‘unimpeded access’ to 100,000 starving peopleAid agencies say they are urgently seeking clarity from the South Sudanese government after it signalled that it would ramp up the cost of work permits for foreign aid workers, days after a famine was declared in the country.Aid groups said the move by the labour ministry to increase the cost of permits from $100 to up to $10,000 (£8,