Weak and awaiting worse: villagers fear South Sudan famine
A one and a half-year-old child with severe malnutrition, cries after being attended at the clinic run by Doctors Without Borders in Aweil, Northern Bahr al Ghazal, South Sudan on May 30, 2017. AFP PHOTO | ALBERT GONZALEZ FARRAN
South Sudan's northwest is untouched by civil war, yet hunger still wreaks havoc: here food shortages are cyclical and the annual "hunger gap" is about to begin.
About 800 kilometres (500 miles) from Juba, where a new conflict erupted in late 2013, the northern state of Bahr el Ghazal has some of the highest levels of malnutrition in the country. Two of its five counties are classified by the UN as being in a food emergency, the stage preceding famine, which was declared in February in two parts other of the country.
