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USAID pledges Kenya $255 mln to fight drought, appeals to rich countries to help

USAID pledges Kenya $255 mln to fight drought, appeals to rich countries to help

THE U.S. development agency USAID said it would give Kenya $255 million in emergency assistance to tackle the severe drought. Some 4.1 million people in the East African nation are facing acute food shortages, the government says, while the number of cases of child malnutrition has surged by half in parts of the country to 942,000 in the last three months. The funding commitment comes in addition to the $65 million that USAID had already provided this year, USAID administrator Samantha Power said. "We need other countries to step up and join us," she said, warning that the food crisis…
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South Africa needs to change direction on maternal health to solve child malnutrition

South Africa needs to change direction on maternal health to solve child malnutrition

WHEN we think about nurturing healthy children, we need to adopt a life course approach to maternal nutrition. In other words, a women’s health for the benefit of herself and her child must be prioritised early in life. CHANTELL WITTEN, Lecturer, University of the Free State SHANE NORRIS, Director, DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development, University of the Witwatersrand We know that poor nutrition during pregnancy and infancy has long-term consequences for that generation of infants – malnourished mothers, birth malnourished infants. Health and nutrition during this critical window has far-reaching consequences and casts a long shadow of the…
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Child malnutrition reaches new highs in parts of Yemen – U.N. survey

Child malnutrition reaches new highs in parts of Yemen – U.N. survey

PARTS of Yemen are seeing their highest levels of acute malnutrition in children, heightening warnings that the country is approaching a dire food security crisis, according to a U.N. report. Drivers of malnutrition in Yemen worsened in 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic, economic decline, floods, escalating conflict and significant underfunding of this year's aid response have compounded an already bleak hunger situation after almost six years of war. "We've been warning since July that Yemen is on the brink of a catastrophic food security crisis. If the war doesn't end now, we are nearing an irreversible situation and risk losing…
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