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Chronic malnutrition worse in west than in Chad's conflict zone

With a massive aid operation under way in the east of Chad, where armed conflict has displaced hundreds of thousands of people, little attention is being paid to the west of the country which has the highest chronic malnutrition levels.

7 Jan 2008

“Kanem [a region in the west] has the worst chronic malnutrition [in the whole country],” the UN Children's Agency (UNICEF) nutrition project officer in Chad, Simeon Nanama, told IRIN.

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