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The United Nations says challenges to Kabila’s rule have caused a collapse of political authority, leading to fighting that has displaced 4.5 million people and left 2 million children severely malnourished.
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As a result, 1.8 million Yemeni children are acutely malnourished, while 400,000 are so severely underfed as to be at high risk of imminent death.
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Often, the puppies are in poor condition because their mothers were mistreated, malnourished or sick.
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They had been abused and neglected for years in ways so extreme that the siblings are severely malnourished and some show signs of cognitive impairment and nerve damage, prosecutors said.
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One of those is Beodilio Zapata, who recently arrived with his wife and severely malnourished sons, ages 1 and 2.
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Prosecutors in neighboring Riverside County said the Turpins tortured their children, keeping them chained to their beds and so malnourished their growth was stunted.
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But authorities say children were kept chained to beds for months and some were so malnourished their growth was stunted.
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Landscaping is reduced to untended shrubs and patches of gravel, dirt and malnourished lawn.
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First Known Use of malnourished
1911
MALNOURISHED Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of malnourished for English Language Learners
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: not eating enough food or not eating enough healthy food : poorly nourished
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