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Her tiny mouth is constantly open, trying to suck in air.
Adama Assan is four months old, but tips the scales at a pitiful 3.3 kilograms (7.3 pounds) -- not even the average weight at birth of a typical newborn in Europe.
"Normally, a baby of her age would weigh six kilos," said Ousmane Ahmat Mahamat, a supervisor nurse at a ward in a hospital in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, that specialises in infant malnutrition.
In respiratory distress, the scrawny baby is in intensive care, with a breathing tube inserted through a tiny nostril.
Her 18-year-old mother, Zara Issa, sits by…