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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Nick Ferris

One third of children in parts of Kenya severely malnourised as aid cuts worsen crisis

One third of children in parts of Kenya are malnourished due to a devastating web of factors including aid cuts and climate-driven environmental impacts, The Independent can reveal

Recent monitoring of the one million-strong population of Turkana – Kenya’s second-largest county – has found that some some 70 per cent of people are not receiving enough nutritious food. Meanwhile, 87,000 children under five and 36,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women require treatment for acute malnutrition.

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