King Letsie III: An urgent call to Africa’s presidents to save children
Orphans and children separated from their parents in Kadugli gather to eat boiled leaves at an IDP Camp within the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) controlled area in Boram County, Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan June 22, 2024.
Each year, nearly five million children under the age of five die from preventable causes worldwide. Thirty million children’s lives are now at stake by 2030, nearly 60 percent of them in Africa, and malnutrition contributes to almost half of these deaths.
Recent shifts in foreign policy and development assistance, including sharp reductions in external support, are projected to result in millions more preventable child deaths globally by the end of this decade unless we act decisively to change course.
