UNICEF Doubles Funding Appeal for Children in Northeast Nigeria

UNICEF has revised its humanitarian appeal for Nigeria from US$ 55 million to US$ 115 million to assist an additional 750,000 people who can now be reached across conflict-affected areas in the northeast of the country, the UN agency said in a report on Thursday. 
An estimated 400,000 children under five will suffer from severe acute malnutrition in three states across the northeast this year. More than 4 million people are facing severe food shortages and 65,000 people are living in famine-like conditions, mostly in Borno, the worst affected state. 
"Children’s lives are literally hanging by a thread," said Afshan Khan, UNICEF’s Director of Emergency Programmes. 
"We are reaching new areas to provide critical humanitarian assistance but we need greater international support to further scale up and reach all children in dire need," she added. 
Nearly one million children are now displaced across the northeast, a million are out of school and hundreds of thousands psychologically affected from the horrors they have lived through.

Source : QNA