Mauritania: Senior UN Official Warns Funding Shortages Could Be Disastrous for Chronically Food-Insecure Mauritania

22 October 2015

On her two-day visit to Mauritania, Ertharin Cousin, the Executive Director of the World Food Program (WFP), saw at first hand the challenges faced by nearly 1 million food insecure people amid rising malnutrition in the country.

"Mauritania has borne the brunt of recurring food crises, chronic malnutrition and instability spilling over from neighbouring Mali," said Ms. Cousin in a press statement issued by WFP from Mauritania's capital, Nouakchott.

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