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...
Wangari explains that brown rice, a whole grain, contains the bran, germ and endosperm, making it naturally higher in fibre, magnesium, phosphorus, vi...
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...
The Vaccibox is designed to strengthen Turkana's health system delivery capacity by providing a reliable and efficient way to store vaccines and medic...
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...
In 2024, an estimated 306.5 million people across the continent faced hunger, representing 20.2 per cent of Africa’s population—an increase from 267.3...
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...
The findings, released by the Access to Nutrition Initiative, show that 90 per cent of packaged food and beverage products, both local and internation...
Chege recommends switching to traditional foods like sweet potatoes, cassava, arrowroot, and legumes, which are not only rich in fibre and essential m...
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...
All vegetables are essential, but the earlier they are introduced, the better.
The appeal, which runs until April 2026, targets key areas such as nutrition, health, clean water, education, child protection, and food security.
The new system will also guide policies like restricting marketing of unhealthy foods to children and other measures to improve Kenya’s food environme...
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.
