One child a minute being admitted for malnutrition treatment in Somalia: UNICEF
- Africa
- Reuters
- Published Date: 01:25 | 18 October 2022
- Modified Date: 01:28 | 18 October 2022
One child is being admitted for medical treatment for malnutrition every minute in Somalia as severe drought threatens to cause the deaths of children on a scale not seen in half a century, a spokesperson for UNICEF said on Tuesday.
The situation in Somalia already looks worse now than in 2011, the spokesperson told a briefing in Geneva, when famine killed more than 250,000 people in the Horn of Africa country.