December
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- Tuesday 30 December 2008
Save the Children warns that thousands more children could be pushed over the limit into malnutrition if there is not a break in the violence so food aid can be distributed.
- Monday 29 December 2008
Save the Children is calling for an immediate end to the violence in Gaza following reports that at least 32 children have been killed in Israeli air strikes.
- Saturday 27 December 2008
Acute child malnutrition in parts of Zimbabwe has increased by almost two thirds compared with last year, according to Save the Children.
- Thursday 11 December 2008
Speaking from the agency’s HQ in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare today, Save the Children’s country director Rachel Pounds said: “If anything is certain in the chaos of Zimbabwe today it is that the cholera outbreak is not under control.”
- Wednesday 10 December 2008
Hunger is now the biggest threat to child development across the world, with global progress on eradicating malnutrition slowing, stalling, or sliding into reverse in some countries.
- Thursday 4 December 2008
Hundreds of pregnant women in Zimbabwe face death because of a near-total collapse of health services, Save the Children warned today
- Thursday 4 December 2008
Save the Children today said the international community must put politics aside and respond quickly to the cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe, now that the government has openly declared it a national emergency.
- Monday 1 December 2008
A deadly outbreak of anthrax has killed two children and one adult and is threatening to wipe out at least 60,000 livestock in Zimbabwe’s northern Zambezi Valley, Save the Children warned today