About 2 million Nigerians are trapped in the country’s North-Eastern areas still controlled by Islamic sect, Boko Haram, and are facing serious humanitarian conditions.
The United Nations disclosed during a press briefing on Friday in Geneva, Switzerland.
UNICEF’s Chief of Nutrition in Nigeria, Arjan de Wagt, about 2 million people are still in areas which are inaccessible because of the security situation.
He said the situation of the people trapped in Boko Haram-held areas was unknown.
“Before April 2016, there was no access to most areas in Borno State because of the security situation,” he said.
Speaking further, he lamented that “In the newly-accessible areas, the levels of suffering and of malnutrition are very high.
“In some of those areas, there’s a severe acute malnutrition rate of 12 per cent, which is a level rarely seen. It is of a severity similar to that seen during the Horn of Africa crisis in 2011, in Somalia”.
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