Nigeria: Malnutrition: Understanding the Crisis Claiming Children’s Lives

The major cause of malnutrition in Nigeria is ‘poverty.’

The geographic of people mostly affected by malnutrition are children under the age of five years. While about two million children in the country suffer from acute malnutrition, only 20 percent receive treatment. 

According to data by the Nigerian Red Cross (NRCS), between 47 to 48 percent of children from Katsina and Sokoto States have severe acute malnutrition, warning that about 1.8 million children could die if there…