In summer of
2011 over 2 million children in the Horn of Africa were malnourished.
500,000 of these children were so severely malnourished, they were close
to death.
Children and families
across Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti and Ethiopia were facing a desperate crisis
caused by drought, soaring food prices and conflict. Famine was declared in
parts of southern Somalia and the United Nations has warned worse is yet to
come.
According to UNICEF, there are still millions of people in
need of humanitarian assistance, and thousands of children in need of treatment
against malnutrition in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. In some southern regions
in Somalia, one in five children is suffering from life-threatening acute
malnutrition. This was, and continues to be, a children's emergency.
The future of millions of children hangs in the balance. We need
to step up now to preserve the gains we have worked so hard to achieve, and
invest in children today to prevent another catastrophe from happening again in
the Horn of Africa.
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