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Today thousands around the world are taking to the streets to take part in marches to highlight the plight of hunger that many in developing countries are faced with.
In Africa one in three people go to bed hungry every night and the situation is worsening.
It's not helped by the conflicts raging round the continent.
In the town of Yenge which is at the centre of a dispute between Sierra Leone and Guinea Conakry
our correspondent Umaru Fofana met one woman who has first hand knowledge of what hunger means.
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