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Excerpt from UNICEF Sierra Leone Country Representative report

More than 300,000 children under five in Sierra Leone are malnourished, UNICEF Country Representative Mahimbo Mdoe said at the weekend.

Addressing a meeting on National Nutrition and Food Security, Mdoe said chronic malnutrition remained the most critical development challenges in Sierra Leone, with over 300,000 children under the age of five had been suffering from chronic malnutrition.

According to a survey conducted in 2010 by the UNICEF, one third of children below five years were chronically malnourished, 7 percent acutely malnourished whilst 10 percent under weight.

 If immediate remedies were not taken, the UNICEF official said, a large proportion of the next generation of children would not live up to their full physical and mental potential.


Malnutrition was the leading cause of child death and morbidity in Sierra Leone and one of the resultant effects which limit the physical, mental and emotional development of children and adults thereby restricting the potential economic and social development of Sierra Leone.


According to UNICEF research, Sierra Leone has the highest child mortality rate in the world and children represent about a third of the country's population.