Between January and June, 652 children died of the hunger in auxiliary facilities of Doctors Without Borders in Northern Nigeria. The aid agency writes Friday On the website That required care was late.
The number of children who suffered from the deadliest form of malnutrition, hunger edema, also increased sharply by 208 percent compared to the same period last year, according to the aid organization.
In the first six months of this year, doctors in the Nigerian state of Katsina had to help nearly 70,000 malnourished children, of whom 10,000 hospital care needed. The aid agency mentions, among other things, the suspension of international financing of aid programs as a reason for the problematic figures.
“We are currently witnessing enormous cuts, in particular from the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union, which have a real impact on the treatment of malnourished children,” says Ahmed Aldikhari, national representative of doctors without borders in Nigeria, on the website.
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Last Wednesday, the World Food Program of the United Nations alarm. At the beginning of July, the last food and nutritional stocks of the aid organization were arrived. The body is forced to suspend all help at the end of this month due to a lack of money. According to the organization, 1.3 million people in northeastern Nigeria depend on that help.
In addition to hunger, Nigerians also fear violence. In the country there has been fighting for years between the armed forces of the government and fighters of Terrorgroep Boko Haram, resulting in thousands of civilian deaths. More than two million people also fled, according to Amnesty International.
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