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Negligence escalates hunger crisis in Northwest Nigeria, Aid group says

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Health officials attend to children suffering malnutrition in a clinic set up by health authorities in collaboration with Doctors Without Borders at Mashi, in northwest Nigeria, on July 22, 2022. [AFP]

The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders said this week that Nigeria's northwest region is experiencing "catastrophic" levels of malnutrition and disease outbreaks as it copes with a decline in humanitarian support.

The aid group, known by its French initials MSF, said that while heavy conflict continues to affect both the northeast and northwest regions of Nigeria, the humanitarian needs of the northwest have yet to be met under the national response plan.

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