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Nearly 11,000 South African children die from hunger a year, a ‘preventable crime’

Every day in South Africa, the equivalent of a classroom full of children dies from hunger, activist Mark Heywood told The Gathering 2025. Every day in South Africa, an average of 30 children die from ...
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Children go hungry while R336-million for early childhood nutrition remains unspent

The Department of Basic Education’s ring-fenced budget for a pilot nutrition programme for early childhood development (ECD) centres appears to have gone largely unused over a two-year period, despite ...
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African governments must act urgently to break the vicious circle of poverty and hunger

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA, November 7, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Child rights and wellbeing campaigners today urged African governments to take immediate action to end ...
Al-Monitor

Hunger must never be 'weapon of war', UN chief tells Africa food summit

The UN Food Systems Summit called for action on hunger in Africa, Gaza and beyond — Solan Kolli UN chief Antonio Guterres on Monday said food must not be used as a weapon of war as world leaders ...
The Providence Journal

Plumpy’Nut paste is leaving Quonset for South Sudan. How Ocean State Job Lot is helping

Since President Donald Trump froze international aid in January, hundreds of thousands of packets of Edesia's famine-fighting food worth millions of dollars has been stuck in Rhode Island warehouses ...
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Coronavirus - Africa: As more go hungry and malnutrition persists, achieving Zero Hunger by 2030 in doubt, UN report warns

Securing healthy diets for the billions who cannot afford them would save trillions in costs More people are going hungry, an annual study by the United Nations has found. Tens of millions have joined ...