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South Sudan faces growing food crisis as millions go hungry

South Sudan faces growing food crisis as millions go hungry

08/22/2022

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South Sudan faces growing food crisis as millions go hungry

Clip: 8/22/2022 | 7m 17sVideo has Closed Captions

South Sudan faces growing food crisis as millions go hungry

Record-breaking drought continues to scorch wide swaths of sub-Saharan Africa, from Somalia in the east to Niger in the west. Humanitarian groups say tens of millions are hungry and conditions are being made even worse by the consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Fred de Sam Lazaro has our report South Sudan, where nearly two-thirds of the population face acute hunger.

08/22/2022

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