Four African countries to ‘run out of supplies to fight malnutrition’ within 3 months due to global aid cuts
Global aid cuts putting millions of children’s lives at risk
- Four African countries are set to deplete their vital emergency food supplies within the next three months, endangering millions of malnourished children.
- Exclusive findings by Save the Children highlight critical shortages in Nigeria, Kenya, South Sudan, and Somalia, where current provisions are insufficient to treat severely acutely malnourished children.
- Moazzam Malik, CEO of Save the Children UK, described the impending depletion of life-saving treatments as “unthinkable”, attributing it to global aid cuts.
- In South Sudan, only a third of children needing treatment for severe acute malnutrition received it due to the closure of nutrition facilities following aid reductions.
- The UK government's projected aid cuts are expected to drastically reduce its support for malnutrition programmes, raising concerns about increased global deaths.