New Survey Says Thousands of Kids Dying in North-east

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ThisDayLive reports: "Thousands of children have died of starvation and diseases in Boko Haram-ravaged North-eastern Nigeria, Doctors Without Borders said yesterday, quoting a new survey that is forcing Nigerian government officials to stop denying the crisis.The Paris-based organisation hopes that official recognition of the calamity in which “thousands are dying every day” will help bring urgent aid before older children also start dying, Natalie Roberts, emergency programme manager for North-east Nigeria, told The Associated Press (AP). A survey of two refugee camps in the North-eastern city of Maiduguri shows a quarter of the expected population of under-five children is missing or assumed dead, according to the organisation..."

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