A malnourished Yemeni child is attended to at a therapeutic feeding centre in the country's third-largest city of Taez, on Dec 17, 2016. Unicef says nearly three million people in Yemen need immediate food supplies, while 1.5 million children are suffering from malnutrition. Photo: AFP
Almost 1.4 million children suffering from severe malnutrition could die this year from famine in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, the UN children’s agency Unicef said recently.
In Yemen, where war has been raging for nearly two years, 462,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition while 450,000 children are severely malnourished in northeast Nigeria.
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