At least four African countries will run out of specialised life-saving food for severely malnourished children in the next three months due to shortages caused by aid cuts, Save the Children said on Thursday.
Supplies were getting dangerously low in Nigeria, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan of high-energy biscuits, peanut-based PlumpyNut paste and other treatments known as Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food RUTF, the British-based aid group said.
At a time when global hunger is skyrocketing, the funding that could save childrens lives has been cut because of recent aid cuts, Yvonne Arunga, the charitys regional director for East and Southern Africa, said.
