ignored by both sides.
from juba, our chief africa
correspondent anne soy reports.
a troubled beginning
for the world's youngest nation.
tens of thousands have been killed.
one in three here is
displaced, and now they face
the threat of famine.
the youngest suffer most.
this is the face of starvation.
christine jackson weighs half
as much as she should
at almost two years.
she's now on life—saving treatment,
but her father worries
that he won't be able
to feed her well when
they get discharged.
jackson should be one of the better
off south sudanese; he has
a full—time job and a farm,
but four years of civil
war and high inflation
have left him destitute,
and there are many
families like his.
the doctor in charge here tells me
this ward is always busy.
so roughly how many children