One million malnourished children in Nigeria and Ethiopia risk losing aid, UNICEF says

FILE PHOTO: A doctor examines a malnourished baby at the Save the Children stabilisation ward in Maiduguri, Nigeria November 30, 2016. Picture taken November 30, 2016.

GENEVA (Reuters) -The United Nations children's agency said on Friday it will run out of its supply of lifesaving food to treat children suffering from acute forms of malnutrition in Ethiopia and Nigeria within the next two months due to lack of funding exacerbated by Trump administration cuts to foreign aid.

Some 1.3 million children under five suffering from severe acute malnutrition risk losing access to lifesaving support this year in Ethiopia and Nigeria, UNICEF says.