Somalia child hunger crisis deepens after aid cuts, UNICEF says

“In Somalia today, aid cuts are closing doors to healthcare, shutting down nutrition services, and pushing water, education and protection further out of reach,” UNICEF spokesman James Elder told reporters in Geneva, speaking via video from Nairobi.

Yet funding for addressing acute malnutrition in parts of Somalia has dropped by more than 80 percent this year, Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, said earlier this month, with the United States and several other Western countries slashing aid.

One-third of Somalia’s population of 19 million people is facing severe food shortages.