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Food crisis and famine

On 9 October 2022 in Niger, Nana Hadiza, 28, holds her twin daughters as they sit on a hospital bed at the CHU Hospital of Maradi. The twins are treated for malnutrition with Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) like Plumpy'Nut and H100 supplements.
Remarks
24 June 2022
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell's remarks at the Uniting for Global Food Security conference in Berlin
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Madagascar. A woman carries her young son while he eats a ready-to-use therapeutic food.
Remarks
23 June 2022
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell's remarks to the WFP Executive Board
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12 month old Mariam is given ready-to-use therapeutic food treatment in Burkina Faso.
Press release
22 June 2022
Global hunger crisis pushing one child into severe malnutrition every minute in 15 crisis-hit countries
Ahead of G7 summit, UNICEF appeals for US$1.2 billion to meet urgent needs of 8 million children at risk of death from severe wasting
Somalia. A boy cups his hands to drink water flowing from a tap.
Article
16 May 2022
4 things you need to know about water and famine
Millions of children are facing the deadly effects of drought, including acute hunger, malnutrition and thirst
Pakistan. A child is checked for malnutrition.
Remarks
04 May 2022
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell's remarks at the launch of the 2022 Global Report on Food Crises
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On 26 April 2022, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell interacts with children at a child-friendly space supported by UNICEF at Higlo Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) site in Ethiopia.
Press release
28 April 2022
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell visits drought-impacted Somali region in Ethiopia and calls for an immediate scaled-up response to save the lives of millions of children
The worst climate-induced emergency in 40 years is threatening the lives of 10 million children across the Horn of Africa
Deborah Yar and her 4 year old daughter, Nyanlei Thuch, are photographed in Guachateny Boma village in Jonglei State, South Sudan. Nyanlei - like many children in her community - receives medical assistance from Awan Agaan, a UNICEF-supported Bomi Health Worker.
Press release
13 April 2022
UN agencies call for scaled-up response to address increasing hunger and malnutrition in South Sudan
Food insecurity likely to rise by seven per cent across South Sudan in the coming months, compared to last year
Remarks
29 October 2021
FOOD AND YOUTH: What I have learned from young people and their desire to fix the food systems they live in
Henrietta H. Fore, UNICEF Executive Director | Martin J. Forman Memorial Lecture
Lao. A boy eats in a classroom.
Statement
27 July 2021
Children and young people must be at the heart of food systems transformation
Joint statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore and WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for the Pre-Summit of the UN Food Systems
Nurse volunteer Fabrina, weighs Elysa and and her twin Elysette as their mother Tsida Fanampisoa looks on outside the CSBII Maroalopoty, January 2021.
Press release
26 July 2021
Malnutrition among children expected to quadruple in Southern Madagascar as drought worsens, warn UNICEF and WFP