Somalia's Kids Fight for Survival Amid Crisis

0:00It's April 28th, I'm Cory with the story, and this is Global News Today, your AI-powered world briefing. Somalia's kids are in a brutal fight for survival right now, with nearly half a million under five hit by severe acute malnutrition, the deadliest, kind of hunger. The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is making it worse, jacking up shipping costs and delays for life-saving peanut paste and therapeutic milk that clinics. Depend on, drought has already plunged 6.5 million Somalis, one in three into acute hunger and massive aid cuts, especially from the U.S. have closed. Over 200 health spots and left 60,000 kids untreated. Now war chaos in the Gulf and Red Sea is diverting ships around Africa, stretching delivery times from 30 to 35 days up to 55 to 65. Health workers in places like Baidoa and Mogadishu are rationing tiny stocks, turning moms away empty-handed, like one trying to save her, 11-month-old who needs 3 sachets

1:02a day. Nurses warn that spotty treatment leaves kids weak for good, body in mind, as admissions for wasting jump 35% this year. One big order for paste to feed over 1,000 kids sat stuck in an Indian port for two months, got canceled, and now emergency replacements from. Narobi costs 4 times more, a carton leaping from $55 to $200. Fuel prices inside Somalia spike to 150% too, hitting families still recovering from the last drought. Aid groups are scrambling with patchwork supplies, but the UN appeal for $852 million has barely scraped 14%. Funded way short of last year's ask, without a surgeon help, famines knocking louder than ever on Somalia's door.