The number of hungry children in West Africa's Sahel region has reached a 10-year high in 2018 due to a lack of rain, conflict and increasing food prices, a United Nations agency said on Friday.
More than 1.3 million children under the age of five suffered from severe malnutrition this year in the six worst-hit countries in the Sahel, a biogeographic transitional zone between the south of the Sahara desert and north of Sudanian Savanah.
This accounts for a 50 percent increase over 2017, said the UN children's agency, UNICEF.
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