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NAIROBI, June 22 (Reuters) – World Bank has approved a $2.3 billion programme for Eastern and Southern African countries to help them tackle food insecurity, the bank said in a statement.
The bank said an estimated 66.4 million people in the region were forecast to experience food stress or a food crisis, emergency, or famine by July.
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(Reporting by George Obulutsa; Editing by Alex Richardson)