THE UN World Food Programme says 100_000 people are suffering from malnutrition in central and northern Burundi, calling the situation there “catastrophic”. The WFP said the northeast Karuzi province was worst hit, with 24% of 360 000 inhabitants malnourished. Fourteen percent of these people were suffering from severe malnutrition. A therapeutic nutrition centre in the province with a capacity to take in 800 children was now overstretched with 940 children. – AFP