Meanwhile in South Sudan: war, famine and extreme poverty

With international conflicts in Gaza, Iraq, Syria and even Libya making the headlines in recent months, the plight of South Sudan has received scant media coverage.

Eight months of civil war have ravaged the world's newest nation and recent floods have made for horrendous living conditions.

Medicins Sans Frontieres, an international charity, has been working in a UN compound at Bentiu which is home to 40,000 people and at the heart of the country's humanitarian crisis.

Current living conditions in the camp are horrifying and an affront to human dignity.

Most of the camp is now knee-deep in sewage, thousands of people cannot lay down and therefore sleep standing up with their infants in their arms.

We have seen over 200 deaths in our hospital since May 2014, most of them children.

Although mortality rates have improved in the last few weeks, we still see at least one child dying every day.

• Ivan Gayton, MSF emergency coordinator in Bentiu

The civil war has now killed tens of thousands of people, forced 1.5m people out of their homes and almost four million are suffering from a severe food shortage.

A deadline to agree an end to the war was not met on August 10th which means the country's "severe man-made food crisis could reach catastrophic levels," according to Care International.

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