Highlights 1 UNICEF has warned that 1.4 children across four African nations could die due to malnutrition. 3 Time is running out for the children in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, the world body warned. In a press release issued Tuesday, the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned that 1.4 children from four counties are at risk of death from severe acute malnutrition, this year. Famine looms in parts of Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, and time is "running out for more than a million children", the world body said. "We can still save many lives," UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake said, "The severe malnutrition and looming famine are largely man-made."

Source: India Today February 21, 2017 00:50 UTC