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Six million Ethiopian children at risk of malnutrition as crops fail and prices rise

by Xan Rice

Up to 6 million children under the age of five are at risk of malnutrition in Ethiopia because of rising cereal prices and the failure of rains, the UN’s children agency, Unicef, has warned.

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