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As the malnutrition crisis continues to unfold to catastrophic levels in Northwest Nigeria, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is calling on humanitarian organisations to take every possible action to scale up intervention in the region. The international humanitarian organisation, during a Twitter space discussion held on Tuesday, Sept. 27, said they had witnessed a 60 per …
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The 2019 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) index ranked Nigeria 159th among 162 countries. This means that the country has not made adequate plans towards a better and sustainable future for its citizens. In 2019, an estimated 91.8 million of the Nigerian population lived in extreme poverty, with the prospect of an increased 95.7 million in …
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have raised the alarm over a global decline in childhood vaccination in 2021, with 25 million children missing out on vital vaccines. The WHO and UNICEF released official global vaccination data on Friday, July 15, showing that the COVID-19 pandemic caused the most significant …
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Save the Children International (SCI) has revealed nearly 30,000 children fled an escalating wave of conflict in Cabo Delgado province in Mozambique in June, the highest number of children displaced in a month in the past year. Since 2017, an Islamist insurgency group, al-Shabaab, has terrorised Mozambique’s Northern province of Cabo Delgado, which has led …
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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has revealed that Borno State, Northeast Nigeria, has been witnessing many malnourished children in its nutrition centre in Maiduguri. The MSF noted that malnutrition is a chronic and multi-faceted concern in Borno State and is driven by the cumulative impact of displacement, insecurity, food inflation, poverty, lack of access to healthcare, …
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Nigerian North-central and Northwest states have witnessed a spike in terror with hundreds of deaths and kidnap victims in the last 18 months according to tracked data from the Nextier Violent Conflict. The insecurity crisis has spread across regions in Benue and Niger states, making them among the top five most violent Nigerian states in …
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The World Health Network (WHN), a global collaboration of scientific and citizen teams, has released a press statement describing the current monkeypox outbreak as a pandemic. The WHN announced on Wednesday, June 22, urging country and global public health authorities for “immediate and effective action” to control the outbreak with the least effort. It said …
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The government of Nigeria has said that the country is still far from achieving its set target of vaccinating 70 per cent of the eligible population from the COVID-19. Dr Faisal Shuaib, the Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), said on Monday, June 20, that the country has been able to …
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More than 800,000 people have fled their homes due to drought since the start of 2021 in Somalia, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said. The number of people facing crisis hunger levels will rise from less than five million to more than seven million in the coming months, the NRC warned. Jan Egeland, the Norwegian …
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Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders, an international NGO, has urged safe countries to offer protection to migrants in Libya. It also urged them to urgently evacuate the vulnerable people by strengthening existing mechanisms and opening alternative pathways for them to leave the country. According to a statement released by the charity organisation, the few legal …
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Four positive cases of monkeypox in four states in Nigeria have been confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), raising the total confirmed cases to 36. The new cases come after the organisation confirmed ten new positive cases on Sunday, June 5, in Epi week 22, 2022, from six states; Edo (2), Rivers …
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Continuous attacks on schools and defects in humanitarian funding for education is keeping 519,000 children out of school across Mali, the Norwegian Refugee Council(NRC) has said. The security situation has created a humanitarian crisis in which the level of children dropping out of school has increased by 15 per cent since 2021, NRC stated. Since …
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