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DAKAR, Senegal (AFP) — Nearly a million young children in Africa’s Sahel region will face severe acute malnutrition this year amid high food prices, conflict and climate change, UNICEF warned Friday. “An estimated 970,000 children under 5 from West Africa’s three central Sahel countries (Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger) will face severe wasting this year”, the UN children’s agency said in a statement. The three countries are poor, landlocked and fighting jihadist insurgencies. Niger is […]
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AFP) — Sri Lanka issued an urgent appeal on Monday to tackle rapidly spreading malnutrition among children as its economic crisis leaves nine out of 10 people dependent on state handouts. The Ministry for Women and Child Affairs said they were seeking private donations to feed possibly several hundred thousand children wasting due to insufficient food. The bankrupt state, grappling with Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis since independence, was unable to […]
by Patrick GALEY Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) – Changing rain patterns caused by the El Nino warming phenomenon frequently drives millions of children into malnutrition and saddles them with life-long health issues, researchers said Tuesday, calling for action against the “predictable” impact. El Nino is a periodic event that affects global weather patterns, occurring every few years when eastern Pacific Ocean waters get unusually warm, leading to heavy rain in some regions but relative […]
by Marthe BOSUANDOLE MBUJI-MAYI, DR Congo (AFP) — Claudine Kamwanya’s twins are barely two but have the ethereal look of the very old. Wizened features and saucer-like eyes peer from their tiny emaciated faces. “How can I satisfy their hunger?” Kamwanya, who has two other children and is pregnant with a fifth, asks helplessly. “My husband doesn’t work and I sell only water.” Acute malnutrition stalks the diamond-rich but fragile Kasai region in the Democratic […]
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AFP) — Doctors Without Borders on Wednesday described “alarming” malnutrition in parts of Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray region and said the situation was likely to worsen with the coming rainy season. The medical charity, known by its French initials MSF, said residents were struggling to access food distribution points and lamented that the aid response “hardly ever extends beyond larger towns” to Tigray’s rural areas. “MSF teams are observing alarming levels of malnutrition […]
by Patrick GALEY Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Climate change may contribute more to greater child malnutrition and poor diet than traditional causes such as poverty and poor sanitation, according to research published on Thursday. Although childhood malnutrition has decreased globally over the past several decades, undernourishment has increased since 2015, in part due to warming temperatures and extreme weather. The United Nations says 144 million children under five were affected by stunting in […]
The increasing number of natural disasters and dangers linked to climate change, highlighted in a major UN report released on Thursday, represents “another strong wake-up call” to the world, which must be countered by finding sustainable solutions quickly, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said. Speaking at the launch of the State of the Global Climate report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Mr. Guterres reiterated his call for action, underlining that the alarming conclusion that […]
by Ashraf KHAN A frantic mother cradling her seven-month-old baby rushes towards the special paediatric ward in a desolate Pakistan town, his eyes are blank and he is smaller than most newborns. He is starving in a country that has no shortage of food, but which has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world and where malnutrition is rife. The infant weighs just 2.5 kilograms — the average for a healthy child […]
by Marlowe Hood Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the air threaten to sap wheat, rice, and other staple grains of valuable nutrients, raising the specter of mass malnutrition, researchers warned Monday. On current trends, higher CO2 concentrations could reduce iron, zinc and protein levels in the crops that feed the world by up to 17 percent by mid-century, they reported in the journal Nature Climate Change. “Hundreds of […]
#INCwalktofightpoverty A malnourished child gets measured in a clinic treating cases of severe malnourishment on October 26, 2017, in Tshikapa in the restive region of Kasai, central Democratic Republic of Congo. Conflict in the Kasai Provinces between the local militia, Kamwina Nsapu, and Government troops have displaced 1.4 million people since August 2016. As three crop cycles have been missed and displacement continues, severe malnutrition is becoming a present issue. / AFP PHOTO / JOHN […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Malnutrition and anemia far exceed internationally established emergency levels among ethnic minority Rohingya children who have fled to refugee camps in Bangladesh, US researchers warned on Tuesday. A total of 269 children aged between six months and five years were examined in the Kutupalong refugee camp in October 2017, said researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Nearly 700,000 Rohingya, a stateless Muslim minority, have fled […]
ALBUQUEQUE, Bohol (Eagle News) – Na-rescue ng Panglao Coast Guard at ng mga residente ang isang nanghihinang giant female green sea turtle na napadpad sa karagatan ng Barangay Wepo, Albuqueque, Bohol. Nakita itong palutang-lutang sa nasabing baybayin noong Lunes, May 1. Sa tulong ng Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) at ng Provincial Veterinarian, napag-alamang ang buoyancy problem ng nasabing pawikan ay resulta ng impacted intestine dahil sa plastic ingestion. Bagaman wala namang mga […]
