Global charity warns aid cuts put 55,000 Somali children at risk of malnutrition

Maryan Madey holds a malnourished child at a camp for the displaced on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. [AFP Photo]

At least 55,000 children in Somalia face severe acute malnutrition, as aid cuts force Save the Children, a global charity, to close its nutrition centers, the agency warned on Wednesday.

Save the Children said in a statement issued in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, that the children will lose access to its lifesaving nutrition services by June.