translate English to French: Throughout the country, food scarcity, high levels of malnutrition and infant and maternal mortality seriously affected the population and that was all the more tragic in a country which was so naturally well endowed.
Dans tout le pays, la pénurie alimentaire, les niveaux élevés de malnutrition et la mortalité maternelle et infantile affectent gravement la population; cela est d'autant plus tragique que le pays ne manque pas de ressources.