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Dr Marc-Joseph Andriaktonindrina examines a 15-month-old malnourished child at the health centre in the village of Imongy, in the Tsihombe district of southern Madagascar. (Rijasolo, AFP)
Ambovombe - Clutching a small bag of corn
in one hand, six-year-old Haova Toboha scratches the ground with the other in
hopes of turning up stray kernels left from a UN food handout.
"I found these and I'll add them to
the corn given to my parents" by the UN World Food Programme (WFP), said
the little girl with the plastic bag in the village of Berano, southern
Madagascar.
In villages across the southern part of the
world's fourth biggest island, a months-long drought ravaged last season's
crops.
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