Malnutrition Worsens As Food Prices Soar In Sudan

At least three million children under five are malnourished after a series of humanitarian crises in Sudan.

Also, there are many mothers in Sudan malnourished. UNICEF says 20 per cent of mothers in Sudan suffer from severe acute malnutrition.

Without treatment, about half will die, the UN agency says in a report.

The country is experiencing an array of humanitarian crises caused by flooding, rising food prices, conflict and disease.

Sudan has also been politically unstable. This is as a 2019 uprising overthrew longtime President Omar al-Bashir, and a military coup replaced a civilian government last year.

Aljazeera on Monday reports one of the women, Asha Ahmed as she says malnutrition has stunted the growth of her eight-year-old son, Mahmoud.

The mother said; “When he was four years old, he was eating little.

"Sometimes he would go to bed without dinner.

"Now all his cousins and the kids in the neighborhood who were born around the same time as he was have grown, but he’s still the same height he was four years ago.”

According to the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET), staple food prices are 250 to 300 percent higher than they were least year.

A poor harvest has made the humanitarian crisis worse.

Food prices have skyrocketed, leaving many more families struggling to feed their children.