Marketers Rolling Back Gains in Baby Breastfeeding
East African
Infant food manufacturers are to blame for low breastfeeding rates, says a Save the Children report. Read more »
Kordofan - 'People Eating Porridge for Lack of Bread'
Radio Dabanga
Public anger is rising in the cities of Sudan's South and West Kordofan are experiencing a severe bread crisis amidst a state of anger among the residents. Read more »
Govt, Stakeholders Validate Food Security Report
New Democrat
The Government of Liberia through the Ministries of Agriculture and Health together with food and nutrition sector stakeholders attending a one-day workshop has completed the… Read more »
High level advocacy for nutrition in Africa [press release]
35°N
Cairo, August 13, 2018 – Recognising the debilitating effects of hidden hunger, African governments and stakeholders have over the years been implementing several… Read more »
All Kenyans Must Get Over Their 'Ugali' for Flour Blending to Work [opinion]
Nation
During my student days at Makerere University, lunch hour was sacred. Read more »
Health Centres Overwhelmed With Spike in Malnourished Children
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Malnutrition peaks in Chad every year between July and October but this year countries across Sahel began to run out of food in March after a bad dry spell Read more »
Unicef Seeks Support to Strengthen Breastfeeding in Angola
ANGOP
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) intends to help Angola join the Global Movement for Nutrition, known as SAM (Scaling Up Nutrition). Read more »
"Food Security, Nutrition Are Important Development"
New Republic
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) representative in Liberia, Madam Mariatou Njie, says food security and nutrition are recognized as important for the overall… Read more »
Let Food Be Thy Medicine
IPS
When faced with a crisis, our natural reaction is to deal with its immediate threats. Ateka* came to the make-shift clinic with profuse diarrhoea: they diagnosed cholera. The… Read more »
How the Lack of Affordable Vegetables Is Creating a Billion-Dollar Obesity Epidemic
IPS
Every Sunday afternoon, Thembi Majola* cooks a meal of chicken and rice for her mother and herself in their home in Alexandra, an informal settlement adjacent to South Africa's… Read more »
3 in 4 Babies Not Exclusively Breastfed in Nigeria
Vanguard
Are the mothers angry? Have Nigerian babies offended the gods or the society? Is this the apocalypse? These were some of the posers that advocates of exclusive breastfeeding sought… Read more »
Activities Marking Annual World Breastfeeding Week 2018 Begin [press release]
Ghana Govt.
Poor sub-optimal breastfeeding practices put babies at risk of compromised health and malnutrition, with the potential of increasing infant illness and death, Dr Anthony… Read more »
Ministry Highlights Significance of Breastfeeding to Prevent Malnutrition
Ethiopian Herald
Breastfeeding has irreplaceable role of preventing malnutrition, protecting lifelong healthy of children and reducing child mortality, the Ministry of Health said. Read more »
Dangote, Gates Partner Govt to Improve Nutrition
Leadership
The federal government and food processing companies have announced new food fortification commitments to improve the country's nutrition, health and economic development. Read more »
Health Minister Recommends Breastfeeding Promotion
ANGOP
Health minister Sílvia Lutucuta called for increasing awareness of the promotion of breastfeeding in health units, in the markets and among adolescents and young people, to… Read more »
