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Why The Famine In South Sudan Keeps Getting Worse

by Jason Beaubien

Women carry food in gunny bags after visiting an aid distribution center in South Sudan on March 10. (Photo: Albert Gonzalez Farran /AFP/Getty Images)

At the same time that people are starving, fighting has turned parts of the country into no-go zones for relief agencies.

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