Malnutrition is a major public health problem in Niger. Whether severe or acute, approximately one in every 7 children is suffering from it. However, there are convincing results coming from therapeutic feeding centres.
Virtually all women from the Afar people undergo extreme genital mutilation, with total ablation of the clitoris and the labia minora and with an almost total closure of the labia majora (this is known as infibulation and not e