A nexus of protracted armed conflict, internal displacement and limited humanitarian access threatens to plunge nearly one million children under the age of five into acute malnutrition by the end of this year – with at least 200,000 at risk of dying of hunger if life-saving aid fails to reach them, UN agencies said on Friday.
A seven-month-old infant is being treated for severe acute malnutrition at a regional hospital in Timbuktu, Mali. UNICEF/Harandane Dicko