All of the children brought to the intensive care unit at the field hospital in the Gwange area of Maiduguri are starving to death because of Boko Haram. “I took her to hospital, where she was given Plumpy’Nut (a high-energy food supplement given for severe acute malnutrition) but she wouldn’t take it. MSF said 290 patients were admitted in July and 30 children died due to severe acute malnutrition. Of those, some 568,000 children have severe acute malnutrition. The UN regional humanitarian coordinator for the Sahel, Toby Lanzer, said US$385 million (345 million euros) more was needed for northeast Nigeria alone.

Source: New Strait Times September 21, 2016 03:33 UTC