The number of severely malnourished children expected to be treated in the Sahel region in 2013 amounts to 1.4 million; 1 out of 5 children in Niger.
The international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has seen an increase in the number of malnutrition cases in several of its projects in the south of the country during the first quarter of the year compared to the same period in 2012.
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