Malnutrition in Somalia Soars

One child is being admitted for medical treatment for malnutrition every minute in Somalia as severe drought threatens to cause the deaths of children on a scale not seen in half a century, a spokesperson for UNICEF said on Tuesday.

“The situation in Somalia already looks worse now than in 2011,” the spokesperson told a briefing in Geneva, when famine killed more than 250,000 people in the Horn of Africa country.

Reuters /Shakirat Sadiq