Worldwide, 5.8 million children suffer from chronic hunger

Worsening food crises in ten countries have left 5.8 million children chronically hungry, equivalent to about 16,000 children a day, according to the non-governmental organization Save the Children, which estimates that about 24 million minors worldwide are victims of this hunger. .

The NGO examined data from the Integrated Phase Classification of Food Security to warn of the deteriorating situation in Sudan, Somalia, Burundi, Djibouti, Gambia, Haiti, Lebanon, Liberia, Senegal and Malawi.

Particularly worrying is the case of Sudan, where there are already four million hungry children after the outbreak of conflict in April, 74 percent more than in 2022. Somalia is the second country where the numbers are deteriorating the most, with around 500,000 more. living people were forced into this scenario, totaling 3.5 million.

The bottom line is that the Democratic Republic of Congo remains the world’s largest child nutrition crisis, with an estimated 13.5 million children suffering from acute food insecurity, despite a slight decline in the most severe cases.

Save the Children’s head of hunger promotion and policy, Nana Ndeda, emphasized that “hunger is not a lost cause,” stressing that conflict, instability, economic and climate emergencies persist despite “tremendous progress” in recent times. the world is far from completely extinct.

“If we want to end world hunger, we must tackle all the root causes. We cannot continue to hide it under the carpet,” he appealed to the international community.

Source: La Neta Neta

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