South Sudan's Famine Takes a Terrible Human Toll
Sitting on his brother’s lap, Adut Dut wails in pain. The child’s skin seems to be clinging to his bones and his eyes sag as he awaits treatment for severe malnutrition at a hospital in Tonj, a small town more than 300 miles from the South Sudanese capital of Juba.
When his father brought him here in April, Adut was of the weight of a healthy American male baby. He had come from a nearby village, where food was scarce. But Adut is lucky: Nurses were able to treat his malnutrition with antibiotics and therapeutic formulas.
