More than 120,000 people, most of them children, are at risk of starving to death next year in areas of Nigeria affected by the Boko Haram insurgency, the United Nations is warning. One small state in Nigeria has more displaced people than the entire refugee influx that arrived in Europe last year. Much of the area is still insecure because of the war with Boko Haram, and countless thousands have not made it to population centres where some degree of care is available. Most patients were the children of unemployed displaced people who had been unable to provide them with enough food. “A hungry young man is easily susceptible to the manias of religious demagogues like [Boko Haram founder] Mohammed Yusuf and [leader of the insurgents] Abubakar Shekau,” said Shettima.

Source: The Guardian November 25, 2016 11:03 UTC