Nigeria needs Foreign Aid Against large scale children Mal-nourishment in North East -UN

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The disruption of planting and marketplaces, by the seven-year-old Boko Haram war in North Eastern Nigeria, is said to have resulted to a large-scale acute Mal-nourishment of children in the restive region.

The UN’s Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sahel, Toby Lanzer, told VOA that the war caused the disruption of food cultivation and market places, thus exposing 250,000 children to acute mal-nutrition.

“We’ve got as many as 250,000 children in the northeast of Nigeria who are severely acutely malnourished and we could lose up to 50,000 children before the end of the year if we don’t scale up right now”.

“The war disrupted planting and marketplaces, killed more than 20,000 people and forced 2.7 million to flee in Nigeria and neighboring Cameroon, Chad and Niger”.

Lanzer said international donors needed to step in to stop thousands of deaths from malnutrition.

“Nigeria’s fiscal situation is such that the country is stretched. And to expect Nigeria to step up all the way to type of levels of assistance that are required may be a very big task for the international community,” Lanzer said.

 VOA reported that more than 20,000 people were killed by the war while 2.7 million were forced to flee in Nigeria and neighboring Cameroon, Chad and Niger, reports VOA.