A third of children in the Middle East and North Africa suffer from malnutrition, Unicef warned today, sounding the alarm over the “crisis that is worsening amid conflict and climate change”. At least 77 million children, or one-third, in the Middle East and North Africa suffer from one form of malnutrition,” the United Nations Children’s Fund said in a press release. According to Unicef, 55 million children in 20 countries in the region are overweight or obese and another 24 million children suffer from “undernutrition, specifically stunting, wasting and weakness”. “The worsening malnutrition crisis in the region is due to the nature and manner in which children are fed, the lack of access to nutritious food, drinking water, medical care and other basic services, and the rise of cheap, unhealthy foods high in salt, sugar and fat,” the agency adds. In these it comes to […]
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