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The 86-year-old widow, Zippora Mbungo, lives with five of his total of 16 grandchildren. Zippora twine balls Mbungo tie a rope tightly around his stomach to avoid feeling pain from hunger, which has become common practice among women in Makima region. Photo: Ssanyu Kalibbala / MS / ActionAid.
A displaced Somali woman weeps after one of her children died of malnutrition in a camp near Mogadishu Airport on 18 July 2011. The IDPs in the camp are facing severe humanitarian crises including lack of proper shelter, clean water, medicine and adequate food to live. Photo:. / Scanpix
A malnourished child receives food supplements at a mobile medical clinic in Hiran in Galkayo, northwest of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, July 18, 2011. Galkayo hosts over 60,000 internally displaced Somalis in 21 settlements camps, and flowing all the time new to the due the prolonged drought. Photo:. / Scanpix
The picture shows a severely malnourished Somali boy who fled with his family from the drought-stricken southern twine balls Somalia. The boy is in a camp in Mogadishu, Somalia. twine balls Photo:. / Scanpix twine balls
Hundreds of newly arrived internally displaced Somalis wait in line to get food. They find themselves at a new settlement in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, 20 July 2011. On the same day the UN officially declared famine in two southern regions twine balls of Somalia. twine balls Photo:. / Scanpix
Photostream AND VIDEO: The UN has raised the food crisis twine balls in East Africa to the highest level and has declared famine in large parts of drought-hit Somalia. But when these are outright famine, and what does it mean?
According to the UN's famine in central and southern Somalia now so serious that it can be categorized as famine. The term famine, there is the absolute worst category of famine, says Jakob Eilsøe Mikkelsen, Save the Children's program coordinator for Somalia and an expert on the situation of children during famines. BIG ISSUE: Horn To be able to talk about famine, a number of technical criteria that must be met, he explains. The official definition twine balls of famine is when dying daily minimum two adults or four children per. 10,000 people from starvation, while at least 30 percent of the population is acutely malnourished.
Drought disaster twine balls in the Horn of Africa that began six months ago, now seems to have reached its peak and is considered the worst in 60 years. More than a million Somali children are feared to starve to death in the near future. This corresponds to more children than living in Denmark. In all, 11.3 million people are now in need of food assistance due to drought in the Horn of Africa, said the World Food Program (WFP) yesterday. According to Save the Children, the prices of food in some areas grown by three hundred percent. Consequences of hunger Hunger can have a direct impact on the physical and mental condition in both children and adults. But it is the children who suffer the most from malnutrition and chronic hunger. "The first two years of a child's life is the right nutrition is crucial for the child's physical and mental development. If a child gets too few vitamins and minerals, it can have serious consequences for the brain and nervous system. The child's progress will stall motor, socially, and IQen will be reduced. This has serious implications, not only for their own future, but also for society. The children's lack of development would in fact prevent them from supporting and developing their country twine balls when they become adults. "writes DanChurchAid . ALSO READ: Ethiopian children fordummes hunger twine balls ropes on the stomach reduces the feeling of hunger Also in the drought-stricken parts of Kenya's population hit hard. Many women have started to tie rope around the waist to dampen twine balls the pain of hunger. I tie this rope around my stomach for not feeling hungry. Most of the time we have very little food, so I give my grandchildren first. That leaves almost nothing to me. Only rich people around here are not binding rope around the belly in times like these, says 86-year-old Zipporah Mbungo, who lives with five of his 16 grandchildren in Makima northeast of Nairobi, to MS. Escape as a last resort Hundreds of thousands have already fled out of the most drought-affected areas of Somalia. The starving Somalis fleeing inter alia to the Dadaab camp in Kenya, which currently receives thousands of new Somali refugees each week. The situation is hardest on the most vulnerable, says Jakob Eilsøe Mikkelse