Nearly 1 million children in Mali will be subject to acute malnutrition by the end of the year without life-saving humanitarian aid as 200,000 face the dire prospect of death by starvation, the UN warned Friday.
About one in four people in Mali are suffering from moderate or acute food insecurity as about 2,500 people, including many children, in the conflict-riven region of Menaka face unprecedented famine, the UN said following a visit to the country by senior officials from UNICEF and the United Nations World Food Program (WFP).
Roughly 5 million children in the African country wrecked by decade-long conflict are in urgent need of humanitarian aid, a dramatic increase of 1.5 million children in need since 2020.
