Nigeria, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan Running Out Of Food For Starving Children – Aid Group

Aid organization, Save the Children, has disclosed that Nigeria, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan, are running out of specialised life-saving food for malnourished children.

According to Save The Children, over the next three months, the four nations will run out of the specialised life-saving food for starving children as a result of shortages caused by aid cuts.

The organization stated specialically that supplies of food were running dangerously low in Nigeria, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan of high-energy biscuits, peanut-based Plumpy’Nut paste and other treatments known as Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF).

Save the Children Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Yvonne Arunga, says “At a time when global hunger is sky-rocketing, the funding that could save children’s lives has been cut because of recent aid cuts.”

According to Save the Children, some clinics in the four African countries were turning to less-effective treatments for malnourished children.

It says in a statement that
in Kenya, where an estimated 2.8 million people are estimated to have experienced high levels of acute food insecurity during this year’s March-to-May rainy season, stocks are expected to run out in October.

According to the statement,
RUTF supplies in Nigeria, Somalia and South Sudan would run out within three months.

Source:Africa Publicity