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Some
two million Sudanese children under five suffer from malnutrition every year,
UNICEF's representative says ©Ashraf Shazly (AFP)
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Some two million Sudanese
children under five suffer from malnutrition every year, UNICEF's
representative said on Sunday, urging the international community to boost
funding to tackle the problem. Of those two million, nearly 550,000 children
have life-threatening severe acute malnutrition, with many of those affected
living in the underdeveloped east and conflict-hit Darfur region.
"Over
38 percent of children under the age of five are chronically malnourished
across Sudan," said Geert Cappelaere, the representative of the UN
children's agency to Sudan.
