‘Price of conflict is too high’: hunger at crisis levels in eight countries

by Karen McVeigh

A mother sits with her malnourished child at a hospital in Tonj, South Sudan. [Photo: Fabio Bucciarelli/AFP/Getty Images]

War driving up acute food insecurity on a vast scale, report finds, with Yemen, South Sudan and Syria worst affected

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