South Sudan faces famine threat due to conflict escalation.
Thousands of South Sudanese face famine due to resurgent fighting.
Tens of thousands of people in Equatoria State face the threat of famine as a result of fresh fighting over a failing peace agreement.
Dozens of Nigerian soldiers have been killed during an attack on a military base in the north-east state of Borno.
And we hear the lovely story of the Oscar-winning South African hit documentary 鈥淢y Octopus Teacher.鈥
(Picture: A villager who had volunteered to fetch gunny bags containing food rations from the site of an air drop takes a break at a village in Ayod county, South Sudan, where World Food Programme (WFP) have just carried out a food drop of grain and supplementary aid on February 6, 2020. Credit: Photo by TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images)
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