The horrible prediction is based on famine-like conditions created by Boko Haram if donors don’t respond quickly.
The Fund stresses that’s far more than the 20,000 people killed in the seven-year Islamic uprising.
Arjan de Wagt, nutrition chief for UNICEF in Nigeria, notes that the severity of malnutrition levels and high number of children facing death make the humanitarian crisis confronting northeastern Nigeria perhaps the worst in the world.
De Wagt explains that most severely malnourished children die of secondary illnesses like diarrhea and respiratory infections.
The expert says: “But with famine, you actually die of hunger. Globally, you just don’t see this. You have to go back to places like Somalia five years ago to see these kinds of levels. Nearly 260,000 people died in Somalia between 2010 and 2012 from severe drought aggravated by war.”
On Thursday UNICEF doubled the amount of its appeal for Nigeria, saying $115 million is needed to save children. However, only $24 million has been raised so far. Speaking about the whole society De Wagt stressed: “Of 4 million people in desperate need of food are about 2.2 million people trapped in areas where Boko Haram is operating or in newly liberated areas that still are too dangerous to reach by road. Among them, 65,000 are living in famine-like conditions.”
In their turn aid group Doctors Without Borders states: “The crisis has reached catastrophic levels for people who have sought refuge in towns controlled by the military but who are entirely reliant on outside aid that does not reach them”.
However, de Wagt admits that the agency continues to deliver some therapeutic food by helicopter and to train local health workers to treat malnourished children living in dangerous areas.
Doctors Without Borders state that the highest levels of starving children are in camps in Maiduguri, the northeastern city free of conflict where aid workers have been active for two years: “The mortality rate is five times higher than what is considered an emergency, with the main cause being hunger”.
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Posted: at 30-09-2016 08:36 PM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Deltaboy1 at 30-09-2016 09:03 PM (8 years ago) (m)
hausa things
Posted: at 30-09-2016 09:03 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Because of boko haram, the assistant director "malnutrition" will have the chance to gamble for the lives of 75,000 children, using diarrhea and respiratory infections.
Posted: at 30-09-2016 10:02 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
i thought special funds were set aside to cater for the unfortunate refugees, unless the official are making adequate uselessness of the funds, and the provisions like foods now have grass as the main ingredients for soups, we should not be surprised.
Posted: at 30-09-2016 10:44 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
People are just arguing here,those children are really dying of hunger,GOD must certainly punish those that looted d funds to fight boko haram,again, Hausa people make una suffry den born
Posted: at 1-10-2016 12:13 AM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
People are just arguing here,those children are really dying of hunger,GOD must certainly punish those that looted d funds to fight boko haram,again, Hausa people make una suffry den born
i concor my brother, Hausa people no care how dem go feed the picken, but their life na to born, na their people dey top position, na dem also dey chop Nigeria money pass, na Their people dey even suffer pass.. meanwhile na dem no let Nigeria go anywere or grow
Posted: at 1-10-2016 03:35 AM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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