The hunger and malnutrition scourge is daily assuming a monstrous dimension in Nigeria and the African continent.The statistics are horrendous and alarming as they come. Most worrisome is the unending string of conflicts in the middle -belt and north-east regions of Nigeria;which greatly compromises the food security and nutrition of millions of Nigerians domiciled within such identified troubled spots.It might interest you to know that Nigeria has one of the highest number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP)camps in Sub-Saharan Africa.Sadly the numbers keeps increasing by the day.
Recently the World Food Programme (WFP) released some terrifying facts as it relates to hunger and malnutrition in Nigeria.According to the planet's apex food security outfit,Nigeria is a food deficit country and is Africa's largest importer of rice.Also one third of children under five(5) are stunted,that is twice the rate of Thailand and three times that of Tunisia.Not done,the WFP equally posits that a child in the remote north-western region of Nigeria,where stunting rates are around fifty-five percent;is four times more likely to experience malnutrition than a child in the south.Other salient areas the WFP report focused on were the underlying effects of insurgency which has left a large part of the displaced population without access to adequate food.
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