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TANZANIAN CHILDREN DIE FROM MALNUTRITION Posting Date: 09/14/89 Source: UNITEX Network, Hoboken, NJ, USA (Reuter Library Report, September 10, 91 words, DATELINE: NAIROBI) About 30 children under the age of five die from malnutrition every day in the Mtwara region of southern Tanzania, Radio Tanzania said today. The radio quoted experts taking part in an African conference in Dar es Salaam as saying the figure will go up unless urgent steps are taken to improve nutritional standarda in the area. The conference is sponsored by the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF). UNICEF representative Seif Athmani told the conference that 1.5 million dollars would be spent this year on nutritional programmes in the area. * Origin: UNITEX --> Toward a United Species (1:107/501) --- Patt Haring | UNITEX : United Nations patth@sci.ccny.cuny.edu | Information patth@ccnysci.BITNET | Transfer Exchange -=- Every child smiles in the same language. -=-