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UN food program helps fight rising cases of malnutrition in Malawi

Beneficiaries of emergency food assistance in Malawi's Chikwawa district take home bags of maize provided by the United Nations' World Food Program on Oct 2, 2024. [VOA]

In Malawi, the UN's World Food Program (WFP) is working to address a rising number of malnourished children amid an ongoing drought, the worst to hit southern Africa in decades. The WFP's efforts include providing supplementary feeding for children in health facilities and distributing emergency food items to affected households.

Malawi has faced food insecurity for the past three years because of natural disasters that also affected other parts of southern Africa.

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