Famine looms in South Sudan | UNICEF

Описание: Famine looms in South Sudan, where resurgent conflict has raised pre-existent emergency levels of undernutrition among children to grave heights.

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Nearly 1 million children under age 5 in South Sudan will require treatment for acute malnutrition in 2014, and without immediate intervention, it is estimated that 50,000 children could die from malnutrition by the end of the year. Further, one in every three people in the country faces dangerous levels of food insecurity, with many not knowing when and how they will secure their next meal.

UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, together with Executive Director of the World Food Programme Ertharin Cousin, visited South Sudan to draw attention to the dire situation. “We have to address what is becoming a nutritional catastrophe – and it is now a nutritional disaster – for so many children," said Mr. Lake. If more is not done, we are in danger of witnessing a repetition of the crises that emerged in Somalia and the Horn of Africa three years ago, when early warnings of extreme hunger and escalating malnutrition went largely unheeded until official famine levels were announced. South Sudan’s children cannot wait for such an announcement.

To learn more about the nutrition situation in South Sudan, read: http://www.unicef.org/media/media_745....

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