A medical charity reported that more than 600 malnourished children in northern Nigeria perished in six months after receiving inadequate care as foreign aid dried up.
According to Doctors Without Borders (MSF), northern Nigeria, which is already rife with an insurgency, is “currently facing an alarming malnutrition crisis.”
Between January and June, there were 208 more cases of children experiencing the most severe and deadly form of malnutrition than during the same time last year.
The charity, which is known by its French initials, stated in a statement released on Friday that “unfortunately, 652 children have already died in our facilities since the beginning of 2025.”
The US President Donald Trump’s decision to cut spending abroad and the rise in jihadist attacks have combined with significant foreign aid cuts, which have contributed to a dire state in northern Nigeria.
The treatment and care for malnourished children in Nigeria were hampered by the cuts, according to Ahmed Aldikhari, the country representative of MSF in Nigeria.
According to him, “the actual size of the crisis exceeds all forecasts.”
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More than half of pregnant and breastfeeding mothers were “acutely malnourished, including 13% with severe acute malnutrition,” according to an MSF survey of 750 mothers.
Nearly 31 million people in Nigeria are currently experiencing acute hunger, according to David Stevenson, the UN’s food agency chief.
WFP warned earlier this week that due to severe funding gaps, it would have to end all 1.3 million people in northeast Nigeria’s need for emergency food and nutrition aid at the end of July.
Source: Channels TV
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