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Photos: Fighting famine in war-torn South Sudan

Nyibol Lual, 13 years old, helps her family to prepare the land for cultivation in Panthau, Northern Bahr al Ghazal, South Sudan. An estimated 63 per cent of the population in Northern Bahr al Ghazal is experiencing severe food insecurity, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report. (Albert Gonzalez Farran / AFP)

Updated on: Jun 01, 2017 2:24 PM IST

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Nyibol Lual, 13 years old, helps her family to prepare the land for cultivation in Panthau, Northern Bahr al Ghazal, South Sudan. An estimated 63 per cent of the population in Northern Bahr al Ghazal is experiencing severe food insecurity, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report. (Albert Gonzalez Farran / AFP)

Updated on Jun 01, 2017 2:24 PM

Nyibol Lual, 13 years old, helps her family to prepare the land for cultivation in Panthau, Northern Bahr al Ghazal, South Sudan. An estimated 63 per cent of the population in Northern Bahr al Ghazal is experiencing severe food insecurity, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report. (Albert Gonzalez Farran / AFP)

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A woman dries a small quantity of sorghum outside her house in Panthau, Northern Bahr al Ghazal, South Sudan.The situation is particularly bad in Aweil West and Aweil South counties, where the exhaustion of household food stocks and growing dependence on financially inaccessible markets have left the population facing Emergency levels of food insecurity. (Albert Gonzalez Farran / AFP)

Updated on Jun 01, 2017 2:24 PM

A woman dries a small quantity of sorghum outside her house in Panthau, Northern Bahr al Ghazal, South Sudan.The situation is particularly bad in Aweil West and Aweil South counties, where the exhaustion of household food stocks and growing dependence on financially inaccessible markets have left the population facing Emergency levels of food insecurity. (Albert Gonzalez Farran / AFP)

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A mother weights her malnourished child in a nutrition centre run by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Panthau, Northern Bahr al Ghazal, South Sudan. (Albert Gonzalez Farran / AFP)

Updated on Jun 01, 2017 2:24 PM

A mother weights her malnourished child in a nutrition centre run by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Panthau, Northern Bahr al Ghazal, South Sudan. (Albert Gonzalez Farran / AFP)

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The head of the U.N.’s food and agriculture agency warned that conflict in South Sudan could undermine hopes of avoiding a new famine next year. (Albert Gonzalez Farran / AFP)

Updated on Jun 01, 2017 2:24 PM

The head of the U.N.’s food and agriculture agency warned that conflict in South Sudan could undermine hopes of avoiding a new famine next year. (Albert Gonzalez Farran / AFP)

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Women with their malnourished children wait outside a nutrition centre.Around 100,000 people face starvation in South Sudan, where crop production has plummeted since 2013 as conflict has killed tens of thousands and forced 3.5 million people from their homes. (Albert Gonzalez Farran / AFP)

Updated on Jun 01, 2017 2:24 PM

Women with their malnourished children wait outside a nutrition centre.Around 100,000 people face starvation in South Sudan, where crop production has plummeted since 2013 as conflict has killed tens of thousands and forced 3.5 million people from their homes. (Albert Gonzalez Farran / AFP)

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A woman with a boy walk in a flooded area in Panthau. More than 1.8 million people who fled their homes have left South Sudan altogether, sparking what has become the world’s fastest-growing refugee crisis. (Albert Gonzalez Farran / AFP)

Updated on Jun 01, 2017 2:24 PM

A woman with a boy walk in a flooded area in Panthau. More than 1.8 million people who fled their homes have left South Sudan altogether, sparking what has become the world’s fastest-growing refugee crisis. (Albert Gonzalez Farran / AFP)

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Awien Akol sits next to her one-year-old malnourished child at the Intensive Care Unit of the clinic run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Aweil, Northern Bahr al Ghazal. (Albert Gonzalez Farran / AFP)

Updated on Jun 01, 2017 2:24 PM

Awien Akol sits next to her one-year-old malnourished child at the Intensive Care Unit of the clinic run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Aweil, Northern Bahr al Ghazal. (Albert Gonzalez Farran / AFP)

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A child works on a land outside Aweil, Northern Bahr al Ghazal, South Sudan. Around 100,000 people face starvation in South Sudan, where crop production has plummeted since 2013 as conflict has killed tens of thousands and forced 3.5 million people from their homes. (Albert Gonzalez Farran / AFP)

Updated on Jun 01, 2017 2:24 PM

A child works on a land outside Aweil, Northern Bahr al Ghazal, South Sudan. Around 100,000 people face starvation in South Sudan, where crop production has plummeted since 2013 as conflict has killed tens of thousands and forced 3.5 million people from their homes. (Albert Gonzalez Farran / AFP)

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