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Medicins Sans Frontieres MSF has expressed concern over worsening food shortages in southwestern Bahr el-Ghazal

Medicins Sans Frontieres MSF has expressed concern over worsening food shortages in southwestern Bahr el-Ghazal, where it said malnutrition was on the increase.
In a statement, MSF described the food situation in east Aweil and Tonj counties as alarming and urged the UN Word Food Programme (WFP) to step up its food distribution there.
MSF said it had on April 7 opened a supplementary feeding centre (SFC) In Akuem, a town in east Aweil where 1,035 people have been admitted to The SFC, and 213 children have been admitted to our therapeutic feeding Centre (TFC).
A nutritional inquiry carried out in January confirmed that the Nutritional situation was very fragile -- 13.3 percent global acute malnutrition and 1.7 percent severe acute malnutrition, the MSF statement added. It said the worsening nutritional situation was the result of poor harvests due to drought adding that the situation was all the more worrying as the depletion of food stocks was occurring so early in the year, whilst the next harvests are not expected until September. The WFP last distributed food in the area in March, according to the MSF.

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