Hunger Causes World’s Worst Child Death in Oil-Rich Angola
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Disinfectant and crying wafted across the Angolan hospital ward where 2-year-old Fernanda Afonso slept in the lap of her mother near an empty intravenous bag that had been used to fight her malnutrition.
It’s the same affliction that killed all five of her siblings as toddlers and scars Africa’s second-biggest crude oil producer with the world’s highest rate of child mortality under the age of 5: 167 deaths per 1,000 live births, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund. That’s one in six.