The Agence France Presse mentioned CARE on the number of severely malnourished children under five in Somalia, which has increased to 1.8 million, according to a UN-backed monitoring body report. CARE said that 479,000 of these children are expected to be severely malnourished and at risk of dying without urgent help.
CARE International said the country’s “malnutrition crisis is accelerating faster than predicted” thanks to “seasonal challenges and the fallout from 2024’s drought.” As a result, in the hardest-hit areas across the country the number of people in “emergency conditions surged by 50 percent.“
The Horn of Africa nation is one of the world’s poorest, enduring decades of civil war, climate disasters and a bloody insurgency by the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab. The country only recently began to recover from a long-running drought, while widespread flooding in 2023 saw almost one million people displaced.
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