UNICEF: Climate change leaves ‘dire situation’ for 45 million African children
The United Nations children’s fund says at least 45 million children are facing severe food insecurity worsened by climate change in several eastern and southern African countries.
UNICEF director for eastern and southern Africa Eva Kadilli said millions of people are living through multiple and often overlapping crises.
These have been intensified by the 2023-24 El Nino weather phenomenon, one of the strongest on record.
Christiane Rudert, nutrition adviser for UNICEF in eastern and southern Africa, says many countries in her region have high rates of child stunting or acute malnutrition.
She notes rates are getting worse because of extreme weather patterns, such as a prolonged heat wave and drought, associated with climate change.
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