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Mar
21
2024
By MOHAMMAD SALEM and GABRIELLE TÉTRAULT-FARBER
In Gaza, starving children fill hospital wards as famine looms

In Gaza, starving children fill hospital wards as famine looms

WORLD
SIX-YEAR-OLD Fadi al-Zant is acutely malnourished, his ribs protruding under leathery skin, his eyes sunken as he lays in bed at the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza, where famine is bearing down. Fadi's spindly legs can no longer support him enough to walk. Photographs of Fadi from before the war show a smiling, healthy-looking child, standing in blue denims next to his taller twin with his hair brushed. A short video clip shows him dancing at a wedding with a little girl. Advertisement · Scroll to continue Fadi al-Zant in family photos. Fadi suffers from cystic fibrosis. Before the…
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Mar
17
2024
By The African Mirror
U.N. agency in Gaza says one in three children under 2 is acutely malnourished

U.N. agency in Gaza says one in three children under 2 is acutely malnourished

WORLD
ONE in three children under age 2 in northern Gaza is now acutely malnourished and famine is looming, the main U.N. agency operating in the Palestinian enclave said on Saturday. "Children's malnutrition is spreading fast and reaching unprecedented levels in Gaza," the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said in a social media post. More than five months into Israel's air and ground campaign in Gaza, triggered by Hamas' attack on October 7, much of the enclave is in ruins with most of its 2.3 million population displaced and facing a major humanitarian crisis. Hospitals in Gaza…
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Jul
31
2021
By The African Mirror
Over 100 000 Tigray children at risk

Over 100 000 Tigray children at risk

NEWS
GIULIA PARAVICINI and STEPHANIE NEBEHAY THE United Nations children's agency has revealed that more than 100 000 children in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray could suffer life-threatening malnutrition in the next 12 months, a 10-fold increase to normal numbers. UNICEF spokesperson Marixie Mercado said that one-in-two pregnant and breastfeeding women screened in Tigray were acutely malnourished. "Our worst fears about the health and well-being of children... are being confirmed," she told a briefing in Geneva. Spokespeople for the prime minister and a government task force on Tigray - where fighting between rebellious regional and federal forces have continued since November…
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