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200,000 people to receive relief food

    NAIROBI

    WFP plans to “immediately” provide 3,000 mt of food aid to 200,000 people in areas most affected by poor harvests and crop failure, the UN agency said in its latest weekly emergency report. The areas of immediate priority are Umutara, Kibungo and Kigali Rural. In addition, WFP will double the rations provided to malnourished people in all nutrition centres in drought-affected and “marginal” areas, the report said. UN agencies last week announced a six-month US $12.9 million programme to provide emergency food and agricultural inputs to drought-affected communities in five prefectures.

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