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Health

Nigeria's northwest faces worsening malnutrition - MSF

FILE PHOTO: A muac tape used to screen malnutrition in children at the stabilisation ward in Molai General Hospital Maiduguri, Nigeria November 30, 2016. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Nigeria faces worsening malnutrition in the northwest due to insecurity, high food prices and the impact of climate change, Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) said on Tuesday, calling for the region to be included in United Nations funding plans next year.

Gunmen have terrorised the northwest, killing and kidnapping people for ransom this year. Africa's most populous nation is already grappling with an Islamist insurgency that has displaced at least two million people in more than a decade.

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