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A mother feeds her child with a peanut-based paste for treatment of severe acute malnutrition in Juba, South Sudan (PHOTO: REUTERS)
Pope Francis called for urgent humanitarian aid for the starving people of South Sudan, saying millions risked being "condemned to death" by a famine in parts of the war-ravaged country.
"Now more than ever there should be a commitment by everyone to not just talk but contribute food aid and allow it to reach suffering populations," he told tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square for his weekly audience.
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