UN agency provides food for malnourished children.

• Author: Taylor, Russell
• Position: Peace Watch

The World Food Programme (WFP) has begun distribution of emergency food aid to urban centres in Madagascar to help feed some 35,000 malnourished children affected by the country's politico-economic crisis.

WFP said it will provide 350 tons of a corn soya blend--a highly nutritious mixture to make porridge--to feed 18,000 children in the capital Antananarivo, as well as 17,000 children in five other major cities across the country.

In some areas, malnutrition levels among children under five have risen up to 45 per cent, as a result of the crisis that has gripped the country following the...