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By Margaret Besheer U.N. humanitarian officials said Wednesday that nearly a year into Sudan’s civil war, almost 18 million people are facing crisis levels of food insecurity — and tens of thousands of children are at particular risk of death from malnutrition. “Areas with active conflict are recording the most highly food-insecure populations,” Maurizio Martina, deputy director general of the Food ...

By Associated Press NEBAR HADNET, ETHIOPIA —  The cruel realities of war and drought seem to have merged for Tinseu Hiluf, a widow living in the arid depths of Ethiopia’s Tigray region who is raising four children left behind by her sister’s recent death in childbirth. A two-year war between federal troops and regional forces killed one of her own sons, ...