The United Nations International Children’s Fund has said that 88,000 children with severe acute malnutrition are at risk of death in the North-East. The organisation also said that about a million children between the ages of six and 59 months in the states most affected by insurgency – Borno, Adamawa and Yobe – were also […]
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Doctors Without Border, a humanitarian aid group, says a total of 240 displaced children have died of malnutrition in Borno state. Moctar Abari, emergency officer of the group – which is also known as Medicine Sans Frontiers (MSF) – made this known in an interview with NAN on Monday. Abari said the cases were recorded […]
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The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that malnutrition, thirst and disease threatened lives of millions of children in Northeast Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen. Mr Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF Director for Emergency Programmes, said in a statement issued in New York that continued humanitarian action was crucial in saving children’s lives. Fontaine said the […]
Continue ReadingFamine-like conditions in the former stronghold of Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria could kill 75,000 children over the next year if they do not receive aid, the United Nations children’s agency said on Thursday.Some 15,000 people have been killed and more than two million displaced during a seven-year insurgency by the Islamist militant group […]
Continue ReadingThe Nutrition Officer for Plateau, Moses Yusuf, said on Saturday that 66 per cent of children in the state were malnourished. Mr. Yusuf made the disclosure at the United Nation’s Children Fund (UNICEF) mid-year review meeting in Jos. He explained that the figure was arrived at following the Standardised Monitoring of Relief and Transition (SMART) […]
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