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Nigeria Boko Haram: Children Starving, Warns UNICEF by ProfDumbledor(m): 1:44pm On Jul 19, 2016
Tens of thousands will die if treatment does not reach them soon, Unicef warns.
In areas where Boko Haram militants had been in control, it found people without water, food or sanitation.
Last month, a charity said people fleeing Boko Haram had starved to death.
The Islamist group's seven-year rebellion has left 20,000 people dead and more than two million displaced.
Nigeria's military is involved in a large-scale offensive against the group.
Unicef says that as more areas in north-eastern Nigeria become accessible to humanitarian help, the extent of the nutrition crisis affecting children is becoming more apparent.
It said that of the 244,000 children found to be suffering from severe acute malnutrition in Borno, almost one in five would die if they were not reached with treatment.
"Some 134 children on average will die every day from causes linked to acute malnutrition if the response is not scaled up quickly," said Manuel Fontaine, Unicef's Regional Director for Western and Central Africa.
"We need all partners and donors to step forward to prevent any more children from dying. No-one can take on a crisis of this scale alone."

Mr Fontaine said he had seen destroyed towns accommodating displaced people and thousands of frail children in desperate need of help.
"There are two million people we are still not able to reach in Borno state, which means that the true scope of this crisis has yet to be revealed to the world," he added.
"There are organisations on the ground doing great work, but none of us are able to work at the scale and quality that we need. We must all scale up."
MSF said in June that a "catastrophic humanitarian emergency" was unfolding at one camp in Bama, Borno state, where 24,000 people had taken refuge.
Many inhabitants were traumatised and one in five children was suffering from acute malnutrition, it said.

Boko Haram at a glance:
Founded in 2002, initially focused on opposing Western-style education - Boko Haram means "Western education is forbidden" in the Hausa language
Launched military operations in 2009
Thousands killed, mostly in north-eastern Nigeria, and hundreds abducted, including at least 200 schoolgirls
Joined so-called Islamic State, now calls itself IS's "West African province"
Seized large area in north-east, where it declared caliphate
Regional force has now retaken most territory

http://livehealthyafrica..com.ng/2016/07/nigeria-boko-haram-children-starving.html

Re: Nigeria Boko Haram: Children Starving, Warns UNICEF by optional1(f): 1:50pm On Jul 19, 2016
Lord have Mercy on your poor children.
Re: Nigeria Boko Haram: Children Starving, Warns UNICEF by Cope1(m): 1:54pm On Jul 19, 2016
Karma is a b*tch......

Bubu do something before something do them

Lord have mercy on this innocent children.
Re: Nigeria Boko Haram: Children Starving, Warns UNICEF by vinceyinnovation: 1:59pm On Jul 19, 2016
The second pic makes it looks as it those boys have been fed to the full.

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