Jonathan Pound

The author is an economist at the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Global Information and Early Warning System

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In South Sudan where famine has been declared, elderly women listen to news about possible assistance. Amid the worsening situation, vulnerable people queue up for food distribution programmes. Many of them are old and suffer from ill health. In Nyal, Panyijar County, people take the help of canoes to reach food camps for registration (Credit: Bruno Bierrenbach Feder/Oxfam)

At death's door

18 Apr 2017

5 min read

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