Tens of thousands of children at risk of starvation in Nigeria crisis
More than 120,000 people, most of them children, are at risk of starving to death next year in areas of Nigeria affected by the Boko Haram insurgency, the United Nations is warning.
Intense fighting in parts of Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon has left more than 2 million people displaced, farmers unable to harvest their crops and aid groups unable to reach isolated communities. One small state in Nigeria has more displaced people than the entire refugee influx that arrived in Europe last year.
Orla Fagan, a Nigeria-based spokesperson for UNs Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), said: Youre looking at over 120,000 deaths next year if you cant get aid to them and theyre mostly children. If we cant reach people with food and nutritional assistance there will be deaths.
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