MSF: 'Alarming' Number of Deaths at South Sudan Camp

An aid group is warning of "catastrophic" conditions at a U.N. base in South Sudan where 45,000 people have taken refuge from rampant violence. Doctors Without Borders tells VOA that more than 100 children under age five have died at the base in Bentiu since the last week in April. The group's head of mission in South Sudan, Raphael Gorgeu, says an average of three children per day died last week, when the situation "drastically deteriorated" because of new...

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