Mona Ibrahim has already buried two of her children. In the span of just two months, the Sudanese mother watched helplessly ...
the UN is warning of famine in parts of Somalia within months. January 2019 marked the start of the second-largest Ebola outbreak in history. With children in DRC at great risk, our teams worked to ...
start bringing attention to this silent war and silent famine.” The warnings come as HRW called for the United Nations and ...
such as at least 30% of a country's children suffering from severe malnutrition. Famines are not common. When a famine is declared it means people are already dying. And the last time this happened, ...
In East Africa, there are currently 20.9 million ... treatment is by no means a ‘silver bullet’ to avert an all-out famine, but it is a critical piece of the puzzle to reach more children with ...
As the Horn of Africa faces its worst drought in 40 years ... conflict-affected countries to be a child. 1. In 2011, famine in Somalia killed 260,000 people, half of whom were children. Today, as ...
Experts from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, said they detected famine in five areas in the Northeastern African country ... half of them children under 5 years old.
Five children died here in the previous week. During the last famine in Somalia ... questions about future food security in the Horn of Africa region. Entrenched civil conflicts and poor ...