EAST AFRICA
A Ticking Clock
The global community may only have a matter of weeks to save some 800,000 people in East Africa from starvation.
The conflict in South Sudan and Somalia and prolonged drought across the region have left more than 15 million children in need of food, water, healthcare, education or protection, Reuters reported.
Meanwhile, World Vision, a charitable organization active in the region, said Wednesday that Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya have witnessed a spike in hunger levels among children in recent weeks.
“More than 800,000 children remain severely malnourished and are at risk of starving to death,” a World Vision spokesman said. “We have months, maybe only weeks, to stop this from happening.”
Famine struck parts of South Sudan earlier this year, and there is a high risk that it could return there and develop in Somalia. Much of Somalia is experiencing “emergency hunger” – one level below famine on an internationally recognized scale of hunger.
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