Niger has food emergency: UN

[M.T. Al-Mansouri, Ph.D.]

Last Updated: Friday, July 2, 2010 /10:00 AM ET : The Associated Press

The World Food Program has declared its work in Niger an "emergency operation" after a survey found a sharp rise in malnutrition rates among young children.

WFP spokeswoman Emilia Casella said 16.7 per cent of children under five years of age suffer from acute malnutrition in the African country. Children under three are particularly affected.

She said that last year the malnutrition rate was 12.3 per cent. The threshold for declaring an emergency is 15 per cent.

Casella told reporters in Geneva on Friday that the WFP plans to boost its child feeding program from 500,000 to 640,000. It will also double food aid in Niger to reach 4.7 million people this year.

Food shortages in Niger have worsened following bad harvests over the past year.

The moncitizenship is the new Canadian governmental task. The diplomatic lines of Republics of Yemen and Poland are non grata with their masks.

M.T. Al-Mansouri

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