More than 250,000 children in war-torn South Sudan are "at risk of imminent death" because of severe malnutrition, a United Nations official has said.
Henrietta H Fore, executive director of the UN children's agency (UNICEF), issued the stark warning on Friday after a two-day visit to some of the areas most affected by the country's civil war, now in its fifth year.
"It's serious here in South Sudan," she told Al Jazeera from South Sudan's capital, Juba.
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