https://www.worlddoctorsalliance.com/tags/famine/ Recent content in Famine on World Doctors Alliance Hugo -- gohugo.io en Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:52:01 +0000 https://www.worlddoctorsalliance.com/blog/virus-linked-hunger-tied-to-10000-child-deaths-each-month/ Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:52:01 +0000 https://www.worlddoctorsalliance.com/blog/virus-linked-hunger-tied-to-10000-child-deaths-each-month/ HOUNDE, Burkina Faso (AP) — The lean season is coming for Burkina Faso’s children. And this time, the long wait for the harvest is bringing a hunger more ferocious than most have ever known. That hunger is already stalking Haboue Solange Boue, an infant who has lost half her former body weight of 5.5 pounds (2.5 kilograms) in the last month. With the markets closed because of coronavirus restrictions, her family sold fewer vegetables.