Save the Children and World Vision are calling for political promises to be urgently translated into action to avert the deaths of millions of undernourished children in Africa. The two organisations have launched a Nutrition Barometre that assesses governments' political, legal and financial commitments to tackling malnutrition in the 36 countries (20 of them African) where 90% of the world's undernourished children live. Almost a quarter of these countries - half of which are in Africa - have shown little progress in tackling this silent crisis.
According to a press release, the Democratic Republic of the Congo appears at the bottom of the list. Strikingly, at the other end of the spectrum lies Malawi which, despite being a low-income country, has shown strong political resolve and committed resources to fight child undernutrition, achieving results. _Said Hussein Halane, Save the Children's Regional Director for East Africa:_"The Nutrition Barometer seeks to hold countries and donors accountable to their pledges to reduce child undernutrition.
