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Drought-related malnutrition less than feared

    NAIROBI

    A humanitarian assessment mission in mid- to late-September, the results of which have recently been released, has found that farmers and pastoralists in Uganda have been using traditional and non-traditional strategies to cope with the drought-related shortfall in the first harvest.In none of the districts assessed were people experiencing above normal levels of malnutrition. A government assessment in July raised serious concern regarding the food security of 700,000 drought-affected people.

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