Child Malnutrition Spikes in South Sudan

The U.N. Children’s Fund warns that nearly 250,000 children in war-torn South Sudan will suffer from acute malnutrition by the end of the year and tens of thousands could die if more is not done to help them. UNICEF spokesman Christophe Boulieroc told VOA more than 3.7 million people in South Sudan are at high risk of not getting enough to eat.  Among them, he said are 740,000 children under age five.  “This means that if nothing is done to increase, to scale up the action...

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