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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By MacDonald Dzirutwe

Hungry and malnourished, northeast Nigeria endures humanitarian crisis

Dr. Japhet Udokwu attends to a child at a treatment center for severely malnourished children in Damaturu, Yobe, Nigeria August 24, 2022. REUTERS/Seun Sanni

Lying on a small bed next to her mother, 14-month-old Aisha Usman stares blankly, her eyes sunk in their sockets and rib cage visible.

She is the latest arrival at a treatment centre for severely malnourished children in Nigeria's northeast, where a long running Islamist insurgency has uprooted millions, forcing farmers to abandon fields and causing food shortages.

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