At the health centre in Dar Naim, a working class neighbourhood of Nouakchott, the building for malnourished children is always full: in rural areas the seasons and crops affect malnutrition levels whereas in the capital this phenomenon remains constant throughout the year.
The International Sweet Potato Centre has launched a $21.25 million research project in Uganda that will develop nutritionally enhanced sweet potatoes, in a project to reduce health problems related to vitamin A deficiency and improve food security in sub-Saharan Africa.
AT 80 years, Mzee Kiwanuka is literally living like a baby. With all his teeth gone, he no longer enjoys beef, his favourite delicacy. His appetite and taste for food has also drastically taken a slump. He is battling old age in isolation.
THE Australian government has pledged about sh173b to fight hunger in Uganda and other African countries in the next four years.
Every town has one popular delicacy that helps to define it. For Jos, capital of Plateau state, Gwote may be the meal of choice.
One in four South African children under five-years-old suffers from moderate or severe malnutrition, and ongoing climate change as a result of global warming is most certainly going to increase this number as food insecurity becomes more pervasive.
At the health centre in Dar Naim, a working class neighbourhood of Nouakchott, the building for malnourished children is always full: in rural areas the seasons and crops affect malnutrition levels whereas in the capital this phenomenon remains constant throughout the year.
IN the 50 years since the era of independence began, Africa has come a long way. Our freedom is enshrined in law. Embassies of African nations operate around the world but we are not fully free and cannot be until we end the chronic hunger that afflicts nearly 220 million Africans every day.
Aja Dr Isatou Njie-Saidy, vice president and minister of Women's Affairs, last Friday, in separate but similar engagements, received in audience the senior nutrition specialist of the World Bank for Africa region, Menno Mulder Sibanda; and Yahya Ceesay, author of a book entilted: 'Women are nation builders'.
The importance of proper nutrition for reproductive mothers and their babies has been re-emphasised as it brings about healthy and long life.
Many educated Ghanaians are patronizing usually unhealthy and fatty junk foods that have been packaged and made more attractive to their own detriment.
A cross section of Dietitians in Enugu, have observed with dismay the resurgence of severe malnutrition among children under the age of five in the country..
