Unicef issues urgent appeal for funding to support 400,000 children at risk of death in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Kasai regionHundreds of thousands of children close to dying of hunger in Congo, UN warnsHundreds of thousands of children in a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo face imminent death from hunger, the UN children’s agency, Unicef, warned on Friday. According to Unicef, 770,000 children are malnourished, with 400,000 at risk of death. The agency has appealed for $88m (£65m) to support children in Kasai, with half the funds to be spent on child nutrition. “Now that people are returning to their communities, thousands of children can be newly reached with humanitarian assistance. In a report – Kasai: A Children’s Crisis – Unicef said 3.8 million people, 2.3 of them children, need humanitarian assistance.

Source: The Guardian May 11, 2018 06:00 UTC