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Samuel Benin

Samuel Benin is the Acting Director for Africa in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. He conducts research on national strategies and public investment for accelerating food systems transformation in Africa and provides analytical support to the African Union’s CAADP Biennial Review.

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Authority determines mortality: More corona deaths (Spiegel Online) 

July 27, 2020


Spiegel Online (Germany) published an article on mortality trends due to COVID-19. According to an IFPRI study, that appears in the Lancet, Impacts of COVID-19 on childhood malnutrition and nutrition-related mortality, due to the devastating consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, almost 180,000 children under the age of five are also at starvation this year. Senior Research Fellow Derek Headey and colleagues analyzed various scenarios and assume that 111,000 additional deaths in children under the age of five are at best, and 178,000 in the worst case. Before the Corona crisis, it was estimated that 47 million children under the age of five were medium to severely malnourished. Republished in Focus OnlineT-OnlineWestfalen PostAriviaMarket Screener.comMax Blue, Teletrader.com, Boerse.comFinanzenWall Street OnlineFinanztreffTelebasel (Germany), Telebasel (Switzerland), Russia Today (Germany/Russia), Russian Today (Russia), and many other mentions from major global outlets. 

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