The global food crisis and climate change are contributing to eight million children under 5 sinking into severe malnutrition in 15 countries, including Sudan and Yemen, it has been revealed. One child every minute becomes at risk of death from malnutrition and lack of food, a statement from the UN children's body Unicef said on Wednesday. AP“We are now seeing the tinderbox of conditions for extreme levels of child wasting begin to catch fire,” said Unicef executive director Catherine Russell. But the group estimates that the cost of treating child wasting has already increased by about 16 per cent. More than two million children are acutely malnourished in Yemen, which has one of the highest rates of child malnutrition in the world.

Source: Ethiopian News June 23, 2022 00:11 UTC