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UN: Seven million South Sudanese face high levels of food insecurity

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A malnourished child being attended to at one of the nutrition centre in South Sudan last year. [File, Standard]

More than 7 million of the estimated 11 million population of South Sudan are likely to suffer high levels of food insecurity through July, said UN humanitarians on Tuesday.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said intercommunal violence, economic crisis and climate-related shocks threaten at least 79,000 people with catastrophic levels of hunger.

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