Children are wasting away in southern Malawi. Mothers are distraught and beg for emergency feeding.
The season of hunger has started - the lean months between the planting of crops and the coming of harvest - and at a health centre in Chikhwawa district, the number of malnourished children worries nurse Ellen Ng'ombe. The figures are soaring, already 50 per cent higher than those of a year ago.
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