The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Tuesday that South Sudan's severe hunger crisis is worsening significantly. The escalation is being driven by a combination of extreme weather phenomena, including a 'super El Niño', alongside ongoing violence and shrinking humanitarian aid.
The compounding crises have left millions of people in the country without sufficient access to food, pushing an already critical situation to even more severe levels according to the UN agency's assessment.
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