Malnutrition
Children go hungry at Kenya refugee camp as malnutrition numbers soar
MSF charity reports 33% rise in malnourished patients at giant Dadaab complex after influx from drought-stricken Somalia
Caroline Kimeu in Nairobi
26, Jan, 2023 @6:00 AM
‘We’re left to die of snake bites, hunger, disease’: Somalia’s people of the drought – a picture essay
Drought, hunger, conflict and rampant inflation have pushed about 130,000 people into camps around Galkayo in central Somalia. Many arrive with children suffering acute malnutrition only to face a new set of dangers
Tracy McVeigh in Galmudug
01, Dec, 2022 @7:15 AM
‘I lost them all’: a family’s sole survivor recalls their slow death under Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge
As a UN court upholds the conviction of the genocidal regime’s last surviving leader, Seang Seng tells how starvation and forced labour killed 23 people of his family
Rebecca Ratcliffe
22, Sep, 2022 @2:52 PM
‘There’s a path towards death that people travel’: how hunger destroys lives and communities
With malnutrition reaching record levels, we look at its devastating effects on the body and mind and the urgent need for aid to prevent the suffering
Isabel Choat
21, Sep, 2022 @5:00 AM
Ukraine war pushes up price of emergency food for starving children
Cost of Plumpy’Nut is soaring, compounding food insecurity in many African countries after years of drought and the pandemic
Joost Bastmeijer in Nairobi
18, Aug, 2022 @5:30 AM
Global hunger toll soars by 150 million as Covid and Ukraine war make their mark
Tenth of world’s population now chronically undernourished, with spectre of widespread famine drawing ever closer, warns report
Lizzy Davies
06, Jul, 2022 @2:00 PM
Fears for Honduran children as poverty worsens pneumonia’s toll
The death of one baby boy in a remote village in the south of the country is a tragedy being repeated all over the region
Sarah Johnson in Vado Ancho, El Paraíso
09, Jun, 2022 @5:30 AM
First food aid for 100 days enters Tigray under ‘humanitarian truce’
Besieged region has an estimated 2 million people suffering from an extreme lack of food
Lizzy Davies
01, Apr, 2022 @2:45 PM
‘Trying to survive’: millions in Tigray face hunger as they wait in vain for aid
With aid unable to reach the war-torn Ethiopian region for months, hundreds of thousands are in ‘famine-like conditions’
Reporter in Addis Ababa
23, Mar, 2022 @7:15 AM
Patients dying as conflict prevents supplies reaching Tigray hospitals
Medics unable to keep babies alive, says doctor, as Ethiopia’s civil war creates desperate shortages of drugs, oxygen, fuel and food
Lizzy Davies
02, Mar, 2022 @7:00 AM
‘We pray for rain’: Ethiopia faces catastrophic hunger as cattle perish in severe drought
Animal carcasses litter the land in areas where the rains have failed, as millions go without enough food and water in a country already grappling with civil war
Mulugeta Ayene in Jijiga and Lizzy Davies
30, Jan, 2022 @7:30 AM
Child stunting from malnutrition could increase in Pacific in wake of Covid, experts warn
World Vision report says widespread loss of income and families having fewer meals are seriously affecting children’s health
Joshua Mcdonald
17, Oct, 2021 @8:00 PM
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