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More than seven million people in fragile South Sudan are at risk of acute food insecurity in the coming months, including tens of thousands at a “catastrophic” level of famine, the United Nations warned on Tuesday. “An estimated 7.1 million people will likely be experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity between April and July 2024,” the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement. Within that group there are “79,000 people at risk of Catastrophic level (IPC Phase 5)” – equivalent to famine – “mostly in locations affected by climate-related shocks,…

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