Status of Breastfeeding in North African Countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region

These countries include Djibouti, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Somalia and Tunisia. Allthese countries are also Arab states, and share cross-cutting cultural values by the commonlanguage “Arabic” and long history of Islamic influence. These North African countries arecategorized by World Health Organization (WHO) as the Eastern Mediterranean region(EMR) and by the UNICEF as the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region (except forDjibouti and Somalia).