Save the Children, the charity organisation, says an additional one million children in Nigeria will be suffering from acute malnutrition by April 2024 without urgent action.
Save the Children International , the charity organisation, says an additional one million children in Nigeria will experience acute malnutrition by April 2025 without urgent action.
The charity organisation said analysis of new hunger data showed that 5.4 million children are now at risk of acute malnutrition by next April, a 25 percent increase compared to the 4.4 percent this April. “Hunger has risen sharply in Nigeria in recent years, up from about seven percent of the population analysed by the UN in 2020 to 15 percent currently.
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