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This will be South Sudan’s hungriest year ever, experts say

By Associated Press
Published January 9, 2022 10:37pm ET
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This will be South Sudan’s hungriest year ever, experts say
A young girl steps back as hospital staff carry past the body of a young boy who was killed by a gunshot the day before, at the teaching hospital in Malakal, Upper Nile State, in South Sudan Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. The government said Monday that it had regained control of Malakal, the capital of the oil-producing Upper Nile state, though the U.N. said its base there took fire, wounding nearly three dozen people and damaging the hospital. (AP Photo/Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin) | Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin

OLD FANGAK, South Sudan (AP) — Nyayiar Kuol cradled her severely malnourished 1-year-old daughter as they traveled for 16 hours on a crowded barge to the nearest hospital to their home in rural South Sudan. For months she had been feeding her four children just once a day, unable to cultivate because of disastrous flooding and without enough food assistance from the government or aid groups. She worries her daughter might die.

“I don’t want to think about what could happen,” she said.

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