450,000 Nigerian Children Could Die from Famine in 2017 - UN

The United Nations Children's agency has said that at least 1.4 million children are at imminent risk of dying from severe malnutrition this year as famine looms across Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen.

Nigerians face famine.

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