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Food availability “might be reduced” - WFP

    NAIROBI

    A joint monitoring mission composed of the government of Burundi, WFP and UNICEF was conducted in Muramvya and Mwaro provinces to monitor food availability, WFP said in its weekly emergency update. The mission found out that food availability might be reduced due to “bad precipitation”. Concerning the nutritional situation, the mission found a global malnutrition rate of 11.6 percent and 1.5 percent of severe malnutrition in Muramvya province. For Mwaro province, the global malnutrition rate was estimated at nine percent whereas the severe malnutrition rate was at two percent. “These rates may, however, rise as food availability is not ensured in the future due to bad weather,” WFP said.

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