UN warns Haiti’s capital blockaded, no aid for malnourished children
United Nations/Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Haiti’s capital is almost completely cut off by air, sea and land blockades as gang violence intensifies, stopping aid from getting to 58,000 children with the most life-threatening form of malnutrition, the head of the UN children’s agency warned on Monday. UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said two-thirds of Haiti’s children […]
Biden says Gaza ceasefire deal is in Hamas’ hands as Ramadan nears
Cairo, Egypt/Rafah, Gaza Strip Reuters US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that a deal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of Israeli hostages was in the hands of Hamas, as delegations held a third day of talks with no sign of a breakthrough. Negotiators from the Palestinian militant […]
As Gaza’s hunger crisis worsens, emaciated children seen at hospitals
Rafah, Gaza Strip Reuters Two Palestinian toddlers with sunken eyes and emaciated faces, one in a yellow cardigan and the other in a stripy top, were lying side by side on a bed in a Gaza clinic, their thin, bony legs protruding from diapers that looked too big for them. This was the scene on […]
Bird-feed loaf and a date wrapped in gauze: What children eat in Gaza
Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip Reuters After surviving on bitter loaves made from animal feed instead of proper flour, three young brothers who fled their home in Gaza City for a tent further south were tucking into a tub of halawa, a sweet crumbly paste. Seraj Shehada, eight, and his brothers Ismail, nine, and Saad, 11, […]
UN raises alarm over child deaths in Sudan as health crisis deepens
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters More than 1,200 children have died of suspected measles and malnutrition in Sudan refugee camps, while many thousands more, including newborns, are at risk of death before year-end, United Nations agencies said on Tuesday. Chadian cart owners transport belongings of Sudanese people who fled the conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region, while crossing the […]
Postcards: Haiti hospital cares for kids amid gang violence, hunger and scarce aid
OCTAVIO JONES and HAROLD ISAAC, of Reuters, report from Port-au-Prince…
Hunger haunts Ethiopia’s Tigray region after years of war
Mekelle, Ethiopia Reuters Curled up on a hospital bed in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, an emaciated little girl struggles to breathe, as her father softly strokes her gaunt face and her mother sits crying. Tsige Shishay, whose pink sweater reads “beautiful” on the front, is 10-years-old but weighs just 10 kilograms. Her doctor says she […]
UNICEF warns of food shortages at overcrowded Haiti camp
Port-au-Prince, HaitiReuters Haitian children face a severe lack of food, medical support and education, the head of the United Nation’s children’s agency UNICEF said in the capital Port-au-Prince this week, hours after heavy shooting rang out near a packed camp of displaced persons. Children have a meal at the New Church of God of Deliverance […]
Haiti conflict puts over 100,000 kids at risk of starving to death, UN says
Port-au-Prince, HaitiReuters More than 115,600 children in Haiti are expected to suffer severe wasting from malnutrition this year, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF said on Thursday, as an escalation of armed violence worsens food insecurity and a cholera outbreak. That number is more than 30 per cent higher than the 87,500 children UNICEF registered […]
Fleeing drought, Somalis face malnutrition and cholera in Kenya
Dadaab, Kenya Reuters When her three-month-old baby fell sick from malnutrition, Dool Abdirahman Ismael left her village in Somalia and walked for three days through swirling dust and scorching heat to the Dadaab Refugee Camp just across the border in Kenya. Ismael, 26, said she had hoped Dadaab would be free of the hunger and […]