Niger Food Crisis Leads to Acute Malnutrition

Acute food shortages caused by prolonged drought has led to severe child malnutrition across Niger classified as a critical emergency by the UN World Health Organization.

A child with camels, donkeys and goats at the watering place near the village of Makanga, north of Tanout, Southern Niger.

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