{UAH} Nigerians Displaced by Boko Haram ‘Starving to Death': MSF

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Nigerians Displaced by Boko Haram 'Starving to Death': MSF
By Conor Gaffey On 6/23/16 at 4:30 AM

Boko Haram Almost six people per day have died over the past month in
a camp for refugees from Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria, according to
charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

An MSF medical team was given access to the town of Bama, in Nigeria's
Borno state, on June 21. Some 24,000 people are sheltered in a camp
for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at a hospital compound in
Bama, including 15,000 children.

The medics found that around one in five children was suffering from
severe acute malnutrition—the deadliest form of malnutrition that
kills 1 million children per year—based on screenings of 800 children
at the camp. Since May 23, at least 188 people have died in the camp,
mainly due to diarrhea and malnutrition. MSF also counted more than
1,200 graves near the camp that were dug in the past year, almost 500
of which were for children.

Boko Haram launched an armed insurgency against the Nigerian
government in 2009 and carries out attacks in the country's northeast,
as well as in neighboring Niger, Cameroon and Chad. The Islamic State
militant group (ISIS) affiliate has killed tens of thousands of people
and displaced more than 2 million in Nigeria.

The insurgency has devastated agriculture in northeast Nigeria and
created waves of malnutrition. The United Nations has warned that more
than 50,000 residents in Borno state are at risk of starving to death,
with health officials saying in February that almost 6,500 cases of
severe malnutrition were recorded among children in IDP camps in Borno
during 2015. The Borno state government said on June 14 that almost
700 former Boko Haram captives were being treated for severe
malnutrition and Borno state governor Kashim Shettima has ordered the
opening of a new camp after more than 10,000 people were rescued in
recent weeks.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has claimed that Boko Haram has
been "technically" defeated and the government has urged IDPs to begin
returning to their homes. But the militants continue to launch attacks
in the northeast and have killed at least 333 people so far in 2016,
according to the Council on Foreign Relations' Nigeria Security
Tracker.

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