World: Acute hunger remains persistently high in 59 countries with 1 in 5 people assessed in need of critical urgent action

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Countries: Burkina Faso, Mali, occupied Palestinian territory, Somalia, South Sudan, World

Sources: European Commission, European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Food Security Information Network, International Fund for Agricultural Development, UN Children’s Fund, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, World Bank, World Food Programme

Children and women are at the forefront of these hunger crises, with over 36 million children under 5 years of age acutely malnourished across 32 countries, the new report shows.

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