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Malagasy Children Bear Brunt of Severe Drought
2016-07-08 12:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Voahevetse Fotetse can easily pass for a three-year-old even though he is six and a pupil at Ankilimafaitsy Primary School in Ambovombe district, Androy region, one of the most severely affected by the ongoing drought in the South of Madagascar. "Fotetse is just like many of the pupils here who, due to chronic malnutrition, are much too small for their age, they are too short and too thin," explains Seraphine Sasara, the school's director. The school has a total population of 348 -- 72 boys...
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