UN: Hunger kills six million children a year
Hunger and malnutrition are killing nearly six million children a year, and more people are malnourished in sub-Saharan Africa this decade than in the 1990s, according to a UN report released today.
Many of the children – the figure roughly equals the whole pre-school population of a large country such as Japan – die from diseases that are treatable, including diarrhoea, pneumonia, malaria and measles, said the report by the Rome-based UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.
