Showing posts with label nutrition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nutrition. Show all posts

Friday, May 20, 2022

Severe Hunger Threatens 18Mln People In Sahel During Summer - OCHA

Severe Hunger Threatens 18Mln People In Sahel

About 18 million people, including 7.7 million children aged under five, will face severe food insecurity in the next three months in Africa's Sahel region, the highest figure since 2014, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Friday.

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

WHO Warns: 75% of Yemeni Kids ‘Chronically Malnourished’, Yemeni Population Engulfed in Food Insecurity - FARS

75% of Yemeni Kids ‘Chronically Malnourished’

(FNA)- The World Health Organization (WHO) warned that 75 percent of Yemeni children suffer from acute malnutrition, as Saudi Arabia keeps bombing the Southern impoverished neighbor in defiance of international calls to end its bloody war.

Saturday, June 9, 2018

UN: 1.25 Million Somali Children Face Acute Malnourishment after Floods

1.25 Million Somali Children Face Acute Malnourishment after Floods
The UN Children's Agency (UNICEF) said more than 1.25 million children are expected to be acutely malnourished this year because of flooding in Somalia.

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

UNICEF Warns of Nutrition Crisis Affecting 165,000 Children in Mali

Nutrition Crisis Affecting 165,000 Children in Mali
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned that a nutrition crisis, exacerbated by continuing violence, instability and displacement, is threatening the lives and futures of thousands of children in Mali.

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

300 million Chinese suffering from 'hidden hunger,' academic says

"At present, 2 billion people around the world are suffering from 'hidden hunger,' and the number in China is 300 million," said Wan Jianmin, an academic with the Chinese Academy of Engineering, during a lecture on Sept. 1.