3 minutes ago400,000 children in Congo are on the brink of death as a result of food shortages
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(8 years ago)About 400,000 children are threatened with starvation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, United Nations reports warn. Wars between government forces and regional militia at the Cassai province's centre of Congo have created a perfect “towers of poverty, privatisation and conflicts affecting children”, the report says. [...]
Wars between government forces and regional militia at the Cassai province's Congo centre have created a perfect “number of poverty, privatisation and conflicts affecting children”, the report says. U n NICEF.
U n NICEF calls for urgent action in preventing violence against children; access to security that is essential for children; and ensures sustainable humanitarian support, reports “Al Jazeera”, Periscope broadcast.
According to the United Nations organization, it is estimated that 1. 3 million people in Cassai have been forced to abandon their homes as a result of the wars involving territory since August 2016.
U n NICEF estimates that as a result of the shift, in which thousands of families are said to have settled in other territories where they have no food and water supplies, while currently hundreds of thousands are facing severe acute malnutrition.
“After an estimate of 770, 000 children suffer from acute malnutrition, another 400,000 suffer from acute malnutrition services and are on the verge of death”, the spokesman said. U n NICEF, Christophe Boulierac. /Periscopi/
