Remember Lauren Branning from EastEnders? Here's what she looks like now
Madeline continues to pursue her career a year later

EVER wondered what the original actress who played Lauren Branning in EastEnders is up to now?

In 2006, 12-year-old Madeline Duggan joined the cast of the much-loved soap, where she played the role of Max Branning’s eldest daughter Lauren for four years.

Young Madeline Duggan was an experienced actress before joining the EastEnders cast.

She appeared in the West End production of Les Miserables at the age of nine as well as taking on a lead role in a short film Between Us in 2005.

She joined the soap at the same time as Lorna Fitzgerald, who plays her screen sibling Abi Branning.

One of her juiciest scenes was when she exposed Stacey and Max’s affair during a Christmas special in 2007.

After filming the pair on her video camera, mischievous Lauren Branning burned the footage on to a DVD before playing it to the entire family on Christmas Day.

In 2008, Madeline’s character was embroiled in another tense plotline when she was groomed by paedophile Tony King.

After Madeline left EastEnders in 2010, the role was taken up by actress Jacquelina Jossa.

A photo posted by Madeline Duggan (@maddiedugx) on Aug 12, 2016 at 3:12pm PDT

Even though she waved goodbye to Albert Square, super glam Madeline hasn’t given up on the world of acting.

In 2012, Madeline took up the role of Amy Chester in crime drama Silent Witness.

The following year, she starred as a waitress in Channel 4 drama Dates and most recently Sky Atlantic’s French detective series The Tunnel: Sabotage.

As well as her television roles, Madeline has appeared in some films.

In 2010, she appeared in musical Rules of Love alongside Laura Aikman, Daniel Anthony and Charlie Clay.

She also played the part of Laura in drama Everyone’s Going to Die in 2013.

When she’s not acting, London-based Madeline can be seen sharing selfies on Instagram and sharing her thoughts about her favourite TV programs on Twitter.

Recently we revealed what the actress who played Lucy Beale, at the centre of one of the biggest whodunnits of all time, was up to now.

We also showed how the actress who played Tiffany Butcher was all grown up, and revealed what happened to Michelle Fowler.
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South Sudan food security crisis could spiral into famine, agencies warn
A woman prepares a meal at the Bor camp for internally displaced people in Jonglei. South Sudan could face a famine later this year, say agencies. Photograph: Reuters

The conflict in South Sudan has set the country on course towards a "hunger catastrophe", with almost 4 million people already in dire need of food and humanitarian assistance, and aid agencies warning of a possible famine later this year if urgent supplies do not get through.

Five months of fighting in the newly-created nation have undermined its food security, leaving farmers unable to sow and harvest their crops, fishermen barred from rivers and waterways, and herders prevented from migrating between grazing areas. The growing number of displaced people fleeing the conflict has also placed previously food-secure communities under strain.

According to a new survey by the South Sudanese government and aid and development agencies including the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and Save the Children, 3.7m people – nearly a third of the population – are now in critical need of humanitarian assistance.

The provisional results of the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis suggest that food security has dropped to alarming levels in the three conflict-affected states of Jonglei, Unity and Upper Nile.

Famine could become a serious risk later this year if adequate humanitarian assistance does not get to those who need it.

"A hunger catastrophe can still be avoided, but humanitarian agencies must be allowed to reach tens of thousands of people in need before it's too late," said Mike Sackett, WFP's interim country director. "It is absolutely critical to stop fighting and other obstacles that prevent life-saving aid deliveries."

He said that although the WFP has managed to deliver food to more than 700,000 people using trucks, boats, airlifts and airdrops, it is still struggling to reach tens of thousands because of the ongoing violence.

The UN agency, which has a funding shortfall of $261m (£154m), is revising its financial estimates and appealing for more donor support in light of the new analysis.

The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (Fewsnet), which also participated in the analysis, said the decline in food security, coupled with high levels of malnutrition and mortality, suggested famine was a possibility in states such as Jonglei and Unity over the next four months.

"This deterioration coincides with the area's lean season, when food insecurity is already at its peak," it said in an alert. "The limited amount of information makes it difficult to pinpoint the specific location of the worst affected populations. However, the counties of greatest concern are Mayendit, Koch, Panyijar, and Leer in Unity state and Ayod, Duk, Uror, and Nyirol in Jonglei state. The worst-off areas of Upper Nile state are Baliet and Panyikang."

Calls for urgent action were echoed by the FAO, which said the analysis should serve as a wake-up call to the warring factions and the world.

"These statistics are a technical way of saying there is widespread hunger and growing malnutrition that combines dangerously with diseases, livelihood losses and, frankly, death," said Sue Lautze, FAO head of office in South Sudan and the UN's deputy humanitarian coordinator there.

She added: "Although this is the most serious crisis to affect South Sudan in at least 15 years, the IPC has concluded there is not a famine situation now … This means there is a small window of opportunity to prevent this terrible crisis from deteriorating into catastrophe."

Lautze said both urgent humanitarian assistance and a rapid end to the fighting were needed to arrest the slide towards famine.

Hopes of a pause in the country's internal conflict were dashed over the weekend, however, when a truce between the government and rebels was broken hours after it came into effect late on Friday.

Under the ceasefire, leaders had agreed to end fighting within 24 hours and to create a transitional government to take the country to new elections. Each party blamed the other for the violation, and by Sunday both sides were in "active combat" around Bentiu – the capital of oil-rich Unity state – according to Lul Ruai Koang, a spokesman for rebel forces.

President Salva Kiir told reporters that government troops had repelled an attack near Bentiu early on Sunday and that the insurgents had also launched an offensive at Mathiang, near Nasir in Upper Nile state. He added: "You've seen now the violations that have happened in one day."

Violence erupted in South Sudan last December after Kiir accused his former deputy, Riek Machar, of plotting a coup. Machar denies the charge.

More than 1.3 million people have fled their homes and thousands have died in the violence between Kiir's ethnic Dinkas and Machar's ethnic Nuers. A UN report on the situation (pdf) last week said there had been gross violations of human rights "on a massive scale".
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Continued violence prevents delivery of vital supplies, leaving up to 3.7 million people in critical need of humanitarian assistance