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All Things Considered: Famine and South Sudan

Women in south Sudan.Photo: Fergus Conmee/CAFOD

05/03/2017

Famine and South Sudan

BBC Radio Wales - All Things Considered, Famine and South Sudan

Roy Jenkins and guests discuss the famine and crisis in South Sudan.

Roy Jenkins and guests discuss the famine and crisis in South Sudan, the world's newest nation.

The haunting pictures have returned. Every few years, it seems, we're confronted with amaciated men and women, and skeletal children. Now the United Nations has declared famine in South Sudan, and at least three other African nations face the same threat. Roy Jenkins asks what constitutes famine. Can it be prevented? And in a country which is overwhelmingly Christian, what are the churches doing?

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