web DAKAR, 15 March 2010 (IRIN) - IRIN has asked a range of experts over the past year why malnutrition is recurrent in Niger even after decades of donor support and government programmes. Two of the hardest-hit regions were focused on - Diffa, which has borders Chad, and Zinder, which borders Nigeria. Hassane Doudou Boukary, Zinder regional director of the UN Population Fund: "Demography is at the heart of [efforts to reduce the malnutrition rate in Zinder below the 15 percent emergency...
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