The number of severely malnourished children has spiked in northern Arakan state in Burma, a European Union agency said, after floods six months ago dealt a new blow to an…

The number of severely malnourished children has spiked in northern Arakan state in Burma, a European Union agency said, after floods six months ago dealt a new blow to an…
The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) in Burma is facing a funding shortfall of $51 million to meet all the needs till the end of 2016.
Children in Arakan’s IDP camps are becoming malnourished as UN aid agencies and INGOs struggle to resume operations in the violence-plagued state.
The UN and other international agencies have intensified their involvement in Burma’s fight to eradicate malnutrition. Children are the focus of multi-layered efforts to improve on poor recent figures.
As aid begins to shift away from the Thai-Burma, experts say a malnutrition crisis is hitting the region hard