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STORY: UNICEF / CHILDREN HUNGER
TRT: 01:54
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: CREDIT UNICEF FOOTAGE ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: FILE
10 – 12 AUGUST 2016, MUNA CAMP, MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA
1. Pan right, mothers waiting outside UNICEF tent
2. Med shot, health worker measures arm of malnourished child
3. Close up, health worker measures arm of malnourished child
4. Tilt up, malnourished child sitting on mother’s lap
5. Tilt up, health worker measures weight of malnourished child
6. Close up, mother feeds Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) to malnourished child
7. Med shot, mother feeds RUTF to malnourished child
26 – 30 MARCH 2016, HABASWEYN, SOMALILAND, SOMALIA
8. Wide shot, dust blown up by wind
9. Wide shot, remains of a goat, succumbed to drought
26 – 30 MARCH 2016, QULUJEED, SOMALILAND, SOMALIA
10. Various shots, group of refugee women and children sitting out in the open
25 – 26 JULY 2016, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
11. Wide shot, women and children wait in a hospital
12. Various shots, malnourished children in IMC clinic in Juba PoC
13. Various shots, doctor assessing malnourished children
14. Tilt up, malnourished child
15. Tilt up, malnourished child being weighed
16. Med shot, mother holds her malnourished daughter as her arm is measured
17. Close up, malnourished child’s arm being measured
JULY 2015, ALJOMHORI HOSPITAL, SA’ADA CITY, YEMEN
18. Wide shot, hospital hallway
19. Med shot, young malnourished girl lying in bed
20. Close up, young malnourished girl lying in bed
29 JULY 2015, AL-SABEEN HOSPITAL, SANA’A, YEMEN
21. Close up, malnourished bay lying in bed
22. Close up, young malnourished child lying in bed
23. Close up, young malnourished child lying in bed
The UN Children’s Fund warned today (21 Feb) that almost 1.4 million children are at imminent risk of death from severe acute malnutrition this year, as famine looms in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen.
UNICEF’s Executive Director, Anthony Lake, said that time is running out but we can still save many lives as the severe malnutrition and looming famine are largely man-made. Our common humanity demands faster action, he said.
In northeast Nigeria, the number of children with severe acute malnutrition is expected to reach 450,000 this year in the conflict-affected states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobi. Fews Net, the famine early warning system that monitors food insecurity, said late last year that famine likely occurred in some previously inaccessible areas of Borno states, and that it is likely ongoing, and will continue, in other areas which remain beyond humanitarian reach.
In Somalia, drought conditions are threatening an already fragile population battered by decades of conflict. Almost half the population, or 6.2 million people, are facing acute food insecurity and in need of humanitarian assistance. Some 185,000 children are expected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition this year, however this figure is expected to rise to 270,000 in the next few months.
In South Sudan, a country reeling from conflict, poverty and insecurity, over 270,000 children are severely malnourished. Famine has just recently been declared in parts of Unity State in the northern central part of the country, where 20,000 children live. The total number of food insecure people across the country is expected to rise from 4.9 million to 5.5 million at the height of the lean season in July if nothing is done to curb the severity and spread of the food crisis.
And in Yemen, where a conflict has been raging for the past two years, 462,000 children are currently suffering from severe acute malnutrition – a nearly 200 per cent increase since 2014.
This year, UNICEF is working with partners to provide therapeutic treatment to 220,000 severely malnourished children in Nigeria, over 200,000 severely malnourished children in South Sudan, more than 200,000 severely malnourished children in Somalia, and 320,000 children in Yemen.
