UNICEF: Horn of Africa is a "Crisis for Child Survival"
Hunger is eating up the poor children in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya while children in America and other developed nations are over fed and obese. ~ Orikinla Osinachi, Nigerian poet and blogger 22 Jul 2011 16:15 Africa/Lagos UNICEF: Horn of Africa is a "Crisis for Child Survival" Children's agency massively scaling up operations to respond to urgent needs PR Newswire NEW YORK, July 22, 2011 NEW YORK, July 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With famine now declared in two regions of Southern Somalia and malnutrition rates at emergency levels in arid and semi-arid regions across the Horn of Africa, nearly 720,000 children are at risk of death without urgent assistance. In total 2.23 million children in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are estimated to be acutely malnourished. "This summer has been an unspeakable nightmare for millions of children in the Horn of Africa," said President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF Caryl Stern. "We cannot control the weath...