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Nigeria: MSF Seeks Nigerian Govt, UN Intervention Over Rising Malnutrition in Crisis-Ridden North-West
This Day, 11 July 2022
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) translated to mean 'Doctors without Borders,' an international medical humanitarian organisation has raised the alarm over the… Read more »
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Nigeria: MSF Warns of Looming Malnutrition Crisis in Northeastern Nigeria
VOA, 5 July 2022
The French medical aid group Doctors Without Borders reported a jump in cases of malnourished Nigerian children at its Maiduguri nutrition center in the country's northeast. Read more »
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Nigeria: Neglected Malnutrition Crisis Threatens Thousands of Children in Northwest Nigeria
MSF, 7 July 2022
A growing, yet largely ignored, malnutrition crisis is unfolding in northwest Nigeria, which threatens the lives of tens of thousands of children, Médecins Sans… Read more »
A Growing Child Malnutrition Crisis In North East Nigeria
In April 2018, Leadership reported that the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) decried the spread of Severe Acute Malnutrition in the northeast zone of Nigeria. At the time it warned that 88,000 children were at risk of death in the region if untreated. Rising conflict between Boko Haram militants and government forces, has worsened in the northeast for a number of years and Voice of America and Medicins Sans Frontieres report that the neglected situation of malnutrition has reached critical proportions in that region of Nigeria, with tens of thousands of children at risk.
InFocus
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Malnutrition is one of the world's major public health and development concerns. In Nigeria, the situation is dire. Currently, UNICEF says 5 in 10 children under five ... Read more »
MSF nurse listening to a caretaker in MSF out-patient Department (OPD) clinic in Emir Palace camp for Internally Displaced People.
