Child malnutrition in Somalia at critical levels: U.N.
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Child malnutrition in Somalia is at critical levels due to violence and lack of access for aid workers, the U.N. children's agency said on Wednesday.
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More than half of African children who die before the age of five are malnourished, a top African Health Organisation (AHO) official said at a west African regional meeting on nutrition.
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A newborn in Sierra Leone has the lowest chance in the world of surviving until age 5, and the prospects are almost as bad for children in Angola and Afghanistan, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday.
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LONDON, Dec 10 (IPS) - Poverty, conflict and HIV/AIDS are the biggest  threats to children's lives in developing countries, says a  new Unicef report.
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ROME - Extreme poverty threatens the lives of more than a billion children around the world, according to a report from the United Nations children&#39;s agency.
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Worldwide, it is estimated that more than 22 million children under five years old are obese or overweight, and more than 17 million of them are in developing countries.
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More than one billion children around the world face a brutal existence because of poverty, war and Aids, the UN children&#39;s agency reports.
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Rising insecurity in Afghanistan has disrupted the delivery of vital aid to about one million people, the U.N. World Food Program said on Saturday.
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Some 2.6 billion people in the   world, mainly in Africa and Asia, lack access to basic   sanitation, increasing the risk of diarrhea and other diseases   fatal to children, said a U.N. report released on Thursday.
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Over a million Bangladeshi children will face acute malnutrition if immediate actions are not taken during post-flood rehabilitation efforts, two UN agencies warned yesterday.
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malnutrition and disease meant the monthly fatality rate was about 10,000. The previous overall death toll had stood at 50,000. People were dying despite the aid effort and the world
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UNITED NATIONS -- Some 18,000 children die every day because of hunger and malnutrition and 850 million people go to bed every night with empty stomachs, a "terrible indictment of the world in 2007," the head of the UN food agency said.
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Malnutrition is increasing in Sudan's violence-wracked Darfur region along with lawlessness and the number of people fleeing their homes, a senior U.N. official said Friday.
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Up to five million people have been left  without basic essentials by the Indian Ocean tsunami, lacking  either water or food or basic sanitation, a senior U.N.  official said on Wednesday.
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Rome- The world is losing the battle against hunger, with the number of malnourished people in developing nations growing to more than 800 million and rising, according to a UN report Wednesday.
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NAIROBI, Aug. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- The World Food Program (WFP) has said it was gearing up for a &quot;critical stage&#39;&#39; in delivering food assistance to hundreds of thousands of people affected by conflictin the western Sudanese region of Darfur.
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Malnutrition among Iraq's youngest children has nearly doubled since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq despite U.N. efforts to deliver food to the war-ravaged country, a Norwegian research group said Monday.