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Burkina Faso, on the frontline of the World Food crisis

Yearly, around 300.000 children are already dying from acute malnutrition in the Sahel region and the European Commission has been working for several years to help bring this number down. In a region that hosts some of the poorest countries in the world, the recent spiralling food prices put this fragile area severely at risk.

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