US EditionUNICEF sounds alarm as 1 in 6 children suffer ‘severe acute malnutrition’ in Sudan
A survey of nearly 500 children found 53% with acute malnutrition and 18% with severe cases, over three times the World Health Organization emergency threshold, UNICEF said.
- This past week, UNICEF warned of unprecedented child malnutrition in Um Baru locality after a SMART survey between 19 and 23 December screened almost 500 children.
- Intensified fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces pushed east after the RSF seized el-Fasher, driving mass displacement into Um Baru locality with over 100,000 fleeing.
- Survey data showed a Global Acute Malnutrition rate of 53 per cent, with 18 per cent of children under five suffering Severe Acute Malnutrition and 35 per cent Moderate Acute Malnutrition.
- UNICEF called for immediate, safe and unhindered humanitarian access, noting Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food is prepositioned but holistic services are urgently needed.
- North Darfur remains the epicentre with nearly 85,000 severely malnourished children admitted by November, while about 30 million people across Sudan need humanitarian assistance and security shortened SMART survey data collection.
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The United Nations has warned that unprecedented levels of malnutrition among children in the Sudan have been recorded in Northern Darfur as a result of the conflict between the military and paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces, which has lasted for exactly 990 days. According to a United Nations communiqué, the spiral of violence and displacement that continues to grow is adding a nutritional collapse of rarely documented magnitude. The U…
"Rather away from a childhood that deserves this name": almost every fifth child in this world does not live in peace. Many become victims of sexual violence, while others lack medical care and education.
UNICEF sounds alarm as 1 in 6 children suffer ‘severe acute malnutrition’ in Sudan
The United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) has warned of an “unprecedented level” of child malnutrition in the war-torn region of North Darfur and called for immediate access to children and families trapped by the conflict.
Never before have so many children grown up in areas of crisis and conflict as today: almost one in five children, almost twice as many as in the mid-1990s.
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