In Nigeria, 75,000 children risk dying in “a few months” as hunger grips the country’s ravaged north-east in the wake of the Boko Haram insurgency, the United Nations warned on Tuesday. Boko Haram jihadists have laid waste to the impoverished region since taking up arms against the government in 2009, displacing millions and disrupting farming and trade. Of them, 400,000 children are in critical need of assistance, while 75,000 could die “in [the] few months ahead of us”, Lundberg said. “We need to reach out to the private sector, to the philanthropists in Nigeria,” Lundberg said. Boko Haram could prey on that anger, he said, warning that “they could potentially end up being recruited back to Boko Haram”.

Source: The Guardian November 16, 2016 02:32 UTC