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1 in 5 children acutely malnourished in refugee reception center on Ethiopia-South Sudan border Format Resettlement delays cause alarming over-crowding as number of refugees and asylum-seekers doubled in February With global attention focused on the conflict in Ethiopia s Tigray region, another crisis is unfolding in the country s west. In February, the number of refugees and asylum seekers doubled in Pagak Reception Center on Ethiopia s border with South Sudan, driven by conflict, food insecurity, and flooding in South Sudan. A temporary receiving area the size of two soccer fields, Pagak is overcrowded and ill-equipped to handle the significant water, sanitation, health, and food needs of the more than 16,000 people currently seeking refuge there. Action Against Hunger conducted a mass screening of 1,979 refugee children younger than five years old in the Pagak Reception Center from February 17-19, 2021. The new data shows that 20.8 percent of the children were acutely malnouri

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