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A child from Niger being weighed at a nutrition centre in Maradi, Niger Sunday 24 July 2005. At this centre aproximately 300 mothers and children are daily searching help as many of them are suffering from severe malnutrition. Aid workers in Niger say that up to a quarter of the country's 12 million people now need food aid in this West African nation which has been devastated by locusts and drought. EPA/STR