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Malnutrition in some areas

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    A recent inter-agency assessment mission estimated that the country’s cereal food aid requirement will be 7,000 mt per month at least until the next harvest in January 2000, FAO said. In a report, it said deficit food production in the February-July 1999 B agricultural season had led to “grave shortages” in many prefectures, and several areas of the country were currently affected by malnutrition. “Dramatic situations are reported in parts of Kibungo and Umutara prefectures,” the report stated. Prime Minister Pierre-Celestin Rwigema on 8 November had appealed for emergency food assistance for tens of thousands of drought-affected families in parts of the country for at least six months.

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