malnutrition Stories
According to Amos Kamau, Nutrition Advocacy Strategist at the Institute for Food Justice and Development and youth representative at the World Food Fo...
UNICEF is urging African governments to protect children’s diets from unhealthy ingredients
In its latest Africa Food Systems report, the Alliance highlights that billions of dollars in funding commitments have not translated into significant...
The approach helps families rehabilitate and prevent child malnutrition using affordable, locally available foods. Mothers are taught to prepare nutri...
Health and Nutrition Coordinator at Save the Children Akutan Lobolia said the integration will allow community health promoters to address malnutritio...
Children in northern Kenya, particularly in Turkana County, are increasingly vulnerable to escalating malnutrition and food insecurity because of repe...
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which has been battling forces of the military government for control of Sudan for over two years, has cut off all sup...
The framework seeks a 10 per cent reduction in major oral diseases and targets 60 per cent of African countries having national oral health policies w...
With the release of the latest food security report from the Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) on war-ravaged Gaza since December, World Food Prog...
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), UNICEF, the World Food Programme (WFP), and the World Health Organisation (WHO) stressed that immediate a...
Even if food aid reaches Gaza, Sudan and other famine zones, complications can arise in malnourished or starving people when they regain access to reg...
Thousands have died and much of Gaza has been laid to waste, but life must continue, according to the correspondent, who is remaining anonymous for se...
He said the Secretary-General deplored the growing reports of both children and adults suffering from malnutrition and strongly condemned the ongoing...
The remaining 201 victims were killed while seeking food “on the routes of aid convoys or near aid convoys” run by the UN or UN-partners still operati...
Cases of cholera have already been reported in North Darfur. In April, Médecins Sans Frontières similarly warned that the rains could worsen the count...
In North Darfur alone, more than 40,000 children were admitted for treatment, twice as many as in early 2024.
The group blamed the crisis on recent funding shortfalls following the withdrawal of vital humanitarian assistance by the United States and other dono...
The department noted that the initiative targets areas with a high prevalence of underweight children, specifically in Lopur, Korinyang, Lokapel, Kale...
The ICRC said that in May alone, the stabilisation centre at Kismayo General Hospital admitted 277 critically ill children, the highest monthly total...
Without timely intervention and proper nutritional support, many individuals continue to suffer in silence, unaware that early dietary and medical man...
This alarming development comes amid a surge in refugee numbers, driven by escalating conflict and drought in neighbouring Somalia and South Sudan, le...
Global aid reductions announced early in 2025 mean more than a quarter of these facilities will close, putting tens of thousands of children at risk.
Humanitarian leaders urge urgent action and investment as hunger, malnutrition, and displacement reach record highs, threatening millions, especially...
Conflict was the leading cause of hunger, impacting nearly 140 million people across 20 countries in 2024, including areas facing "catastrophic" level...
The Somalia Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan is only 11.1 per cent funded as of May 12.
Aid workers are now caught between two impossible choices: send supplies into areas where they might be looted, or hold them back and risk running out...
This time of year, known as the hunger gap, is when people in South Darfur face the most difficulty accessing food. MSF warns that supplies for malnut...
Half of its population is facing extreme hunger, and nearly five million children and breastfeeding mothers are severely malnourished.
More than 10 million people in Ethiopia are gravely short of food, including 3 million displaced by conflict and extreme weather conditions, as well a...
The approval of the kitty follows the lender’s visit to Kenya’s Food4Education programme in March, an initiative intended to end classroom hunger by s...
