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One third of children in the Turkana region of northwestern Kenya are malnourished, The Independent can reveal, due to a devastating web of factors including aid cuts and climate-driven environmental impacts.

Recent monitoring of the one million-strong population of Turkana - Kenya’s second-largest county - has found that some some 70 per cent of people are not receiving enough nutritious food. Meanwhile, 87,000 children under five and 36,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women require treatment for acut

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