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Palestinian children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies, as the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 20, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo

UNICEF finds 90% of Gazan children lack food needed for proper growth

It said that five sets of data collected between December 2023 and April 2024 had found that 9 out of 10 children in the Gaza Strip, which has been pounded by an Israeli offensive since last...

Women and children wait to be registered prior to a food distribution carried out by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Thonyor, Leer state, South Sudan, February 25, 2017. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola/File Photo

Sudan needs 'immediate action' on hunger to avert widespread death, UN-backed report says

Smoke rises following an Israeli strike as Palestinians fleeing north Gaza due to Israel’s military offensive move southward, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, at the central Gaza Strip, March 15, 2024. REUTERS/Ahmed Zakot

5-year-old dies of malnutrition as Israel siege leaves Gaza starving

FILE PHOTO: Palestinian children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies, as the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 5, 2024. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/File Photo

UN agency in Gaza says one in three children under 2 is acutely malnourished

A displaced Palestinian boy, who fled with his family from their house amid Israeli strikes, looks after his twin siblings as they take shelter at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip October 29, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

It’s not just Israeli bombs that have killed children in Gaza. Now some are dying of hunger too

Palestinian woman Warda Mattar feeds her newborn dates, instead of milk, amidst food scarcity and lack of milk, at a school where they shelter in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip February 25, 2024. REUTERS/Doaa Ruqqa

Bird-feed loaf and a date wrapped in gauze: What children eat in Gaza

A Palestinian girl has her arm measured for malnutrition at a medical tent set up by MedGlobal in cooperation with UNICEF, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 14, 2024. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Gaza doctors measure children for malnutrition

Children look on as Palestinians flee north Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, November 9, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Gaza population lacks food, faces malnutrition, UN food programme official says

In 2017, Bangladesh saw the largest influx of the Rohingyas from neighboring Myanmar. Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed

Six years after fleeing violence, Rohingya families survive on rice and oil, says Save the Children

Micronutrient deficiency of adolescent girls by seasonality and salinity. Vitamin (OH) D deficiency (< 30 nmol/L), vitamin (OH) D insufficiency (< 50 nmol/L), Iron Deficiency (Ferritin < 15 ug/L) and VAD (Serum retinol < 30 ug/dL). Statistical significance (P < 0.005) has been denoted by asterisk: *Pearson’s chi-square test. Note: Different agro-aquatic ecological zone- HS, High saline; MS, Medium saline; LS, Low saline; FW, Fresh water, and PP, Processing plant. Credit: Scientific Reports (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-33636-8

Study finds adolescent girls in Bangladesh vulnerable to malnutrition

FILE PHOTO: Somali displaced mother Binti Moalim Hassan lays beside her malnourished 3-year-old daughter Faduma in a hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia October 25, 2022. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

Nearly a million Sahel children face 'severe wasting', UN says

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Rising commodity prices will increase malnutrition

Amina Ali, a Somali woman affected by the worsening drought due to failed rain seasons, holds her child inside their makeshift shelter at the Alla Futo camp for internally displaced people in the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia September 23, 2022. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

One child a minute being admitted for malnutrition treatment in Somalia: UNICEF