ROME – Harvest season is bringing little relief to millions of hungry people in South Sudan as conflict and hyperinflation have pushed malnutrition to critical levels that could put many lives at risk, food security experts warned on Monday.
More than 1.1 million children under five children are forecast to be malnourished in 2018 including nearly 300,000 “at a heightened risk of death,” according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).
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