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Malnutrition in Mandera

    NAIROBI

    The nutritional situation in the northeastern town of Mandera remains precarious, MSF-Spain told IRIN on Friday. "The number of children benefiting from the therapeutic feeding centre is going up," MSF-Spain's Country Coordinator Johan De Smedt said. "There are 80 children in this centre and some 2,000 others benefiting from the dry distribution centres within Mandera township," he added. He said MSF's latest survey, covering up to 50 km from the township, revealed a 6-7 percent malnutrition rate, and there was a likelihood that the situation could deteriorate. "This results from a bad rainy season which just elapsed," he said.

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