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Malnutrition reported in eastern town

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    A team from Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) that travelled at the weekend to Daru, near Sierra Leone’s border with Liberia, saw signs of severe malnutrition in the eastern town, MSF said here.

    The team went to assess the humanitarian situation in the town, which is controlled by ECOMOG. Visual observation of a small group of children, which was not necessarily representative of the entire population, showed that about 20 suffered from severe malnutrition, an MSF official said on Monday.

    “This is not an emergency but it is very close. We are at the borderline,” the MSF representative said at a meeting.

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