23 June 2016
From the section Africa
Nearly 200 refugees fleeing Boko
Haram militants have starved to
death over the past month in Bama,
Nigeria, the medical charity MSF says. A "catastrophic humanitarian
emergency" is unfolding at a camp it
visited where 24,000 people have
taken refuge. Many inhabitants are traumatised and
one in five children is suffering from
acute malnutrition, MSF says. The Islamist group's seven-year
rebellion has left 20,000 people dead
and more than two million displaced.
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Nigeria's military has carried out a
large-scale offensive against them but
Boko Haram still attacks villages in the
north-east, destroying homes and
burning down wells. Displaced people in Bama say new
graves are appearing on a daily basis,
according to a statement from MSF. It quoted inhabitants as saying about
30 people died every day due to
hunger or illness. Although the area has been unsafe to
travel through, MSF says one of its
teams reached Bama on Tuesday. It went in with a military convoy from
the city of Maiduguri in Borno state. "This is the first time MSF has been able
to access Bama, but we already know
the needs of the people there are
beyond critical," said Ghada Hatim, MSF
head of mission in Nigeria. "We are treating malnourished children
in medical facilities in Maiduguri and see
the trauma on the faces of our patients
who have witnessed and survived
many horrors," he said.

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Lalasticlala, pls do the needful.
Dear nairalanders, plsanntabu your senator to ask them how far with these abandoned citizens of our nation.

So it's true.
Only stories of snakes, celebrities and politricks get comments?
Govt is spending billions, yet children are still dying- OF HUNGER O, NOT DISEASE- but nigerians nor get time.
Change has truly come...