About 800K Under-5 Children ‘Severely Malnourished’ In Lake Chad Region, NGO Says

Quartz: Nearly a million children are victims of a severe food crisis in the Lake Chad region
“Boko Haram’s insurgency in and around the Lake Chad region has seen thousands killed and millions more displaced. Now, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is shining a light on another set of victims: around 800,000 children under the age five who are ‘severely malnourished’…” (Kazeem, 9/6).

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