BBC NEWS | Africa | Hunger kills '6m children a year'

BBC NEWS | Africa | Hunger kills '6m children a year': "o developing region is on track to meet the international goal of reducing the number of hungry people by half, a UN agency has warned.

Nearly six million children die from hunger or malnutrition every year, the Food and Agriculture Organisation says.

Many deaths result from treatable diseases such as diarrhoea, pneumonia, malaria and measles, the agency says.

They would survive if they had proper nourishment, the agency says in a new report on world hunger.

'Reducing hunger should become the driving force for progress and hope,' FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf wrote in the report.

At the World Food Summit in 1996, world leaders announced a plan to halve the number of hungry people by 2015.

But Mr Diouf says this promise is likely to be broken"