SOMALIA: Millions of Children Starving
Bob McCarthy, Somalia Emergency Officer of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) was quoted as saying:
Every child [at a supplementary feeding centre] in Isdorto is below 80 percent weight for height. You can see the physical signs of malnutrition. ……It is a borderline situation, and more and more children are slipping into this category ……….Aid workers told me the numbers are rapidly going up.
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