South Sudan: Hunger and Child Abandonment in North South Sudan

14 July 2016

Majook, South Sudan - Three hundred children in South Sudan's Northern Bahr El Ghazal region have been abandoned by parents fleeing the country to escape two years of drought, a collapsing economy, and mass hunger.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF brought Al Jazeera to a mosque run by the Northern Bahr El Ghazal Islamic Council in the town of Majook, close to South Sudan's border with Sudan, where the children are forced to live after their parents abandoned them to make the journey north alone.

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