Last year, more than 36 million children under the age of 5 suffered from acute malnutrition worldwide. No child should suffer from lack of sustenance, but natural disasters, poverty and war continue to put the youngest and most vulnerable at risk. Child malnutrition in Sudan is at emergency levels, according to the World Health Organization.
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