how many kids in africa are starving
A few weeks ago, around nine million were facing starvation in the Horn of Africa. Now it is approaching 13 million. The number going hungry is bigger than the entire population of Belgium â with some two million children under five malnourished, and, says the UN, at least 30,000 dead. Countries across East Africa have been ravagedby one of the worst droughts in decades; in many places this has meant no rains at all for two years. Although Somalia and Kenya have dominated the headlines, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti are all suffering from the effects of their soil being reduced to arid dust.