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Nigeria: WFP to Provide Emergency Food to 2.1 Million Nigerians Affected By Conflict
Premium Times, 30 April 2023
This is contained in a statement released on Saturday in Abuja by Chi Lael, head of Communications, Advocacy and Marketing of the programme in Nigeria. Read more »
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Nigeria: MSF Warns of Catastrophe As Unprecedented Number of Malnourished Children Need Lifesaving Support
MSF, 26 April 2023
Unprecedented numbers of malnourished children in need of lifesaving treatment have been brought to therapeutic feeding centres run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)… Read more »
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Nigeria: Nigeria Burdened With Highest Malnutrition Cases in Africa, Says Govt, Nutrition International
Vanguard, 30 March 2023
NIGERIA is the highest country battling malnutrition in Africa, with over 17 million malnourished children, the Federal Government, FG, and a global nutrition organization,… Read more »
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Nigeria: UN Seeks Urgent Action to Save Children From Acute Malnutrition in 15 Countries
This Day, 19 January 2023
*Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia among vulnerable countries Read more »
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Nigeria: UNICEF Says 2,000 Children Suffering from Stunted Growth in Lagos
Daily Trust, 12 March 2023
Lagos State accounts for about 2,000 children with stunted growth as a result of malnutrition, Mrs Ada Ezeogu, United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) Nutrition Specialist said. Read more »
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Nigeria: MSF Treats Thousands of Children for Malnutrition as Conflict Surges in the Northwest
MSF, 23 November 2021
Doctors Without Borders has launched a new program to treat malnourished children in Katsina state, in the northwest of Nigeria, as conflict and insecurity surge in the region. Read more »
Children in Nigeria Face Catastrophic Malnutrition, Warns MSF
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has warned of an impending catastrophe if immediate action is not taken as unprecedented numbers of malnourished children are in need of lifesaving treatment in northeast Nigeria.
The number of malnourished child admissions since the start of 2023 is the highest ever recorded by MSF teams in Borno State for the period preceding the annual 'hunger gap' when food stocks from the previous harvest traditionally run out and malnutrition levels peak.
Malnutrition is a long-standing problem in Maiduguri due to years of conflict and insecurity, leading to a critical humanitarian situation. The displacement of people from their homes has resulted in precarious living conditions in informal sites, host communities, and detention camps.
MSF is responding to a malnutrition emergency in Maiduguri and also addressing significant health and malnutrition crises in other parts of northwest Nigeria. They treated 147,860 children with severe acute malnutrition in the previous year. It urges the authorities and aid organisations to improve living conditions in transit camps and expand people's access to healthcare.
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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 »
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The World Food Program has warned that it will be forced to cut food rations for half-a-million people suffering from acute hunger in northeast Nigeria unless it receives urgently ... Read more »
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In August 2020, the Borno State government announced and began plans to resettle over 1.8 million displaced people from camps in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, to other ... Read more »
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More than 37 million people are facing acute hunger, with approximately seven million children under the age of five acutely malnourished in the region, according to the World ... Read more »
Zarah takes care of her five-month old twins who are receiving treatment for malnutrition at the Nilefa Kiji nutrition centre in Maiduguri. Nigeria, April 2023.
