Starvation is taking its toll as children in Nigeria are being robbed of food in refugee camps.
Children in refugee camps in largest northeastern city of Nigeria, Maiduguri, might have survived Boko Haram’s Islamic insurgency but they remain living in threat – of starvation and loss of life – because of theft of food aid distributed by their government.
The refugees have staged protest almost everyday over the past week.
One instance was when women blocked the main road which links the Borno state capital Maiduguri and Kano City for nearly five hours shouting out their children’s suffering of starvation, both of food and drinking water, as they stand the soaring 40 degrees or 104 Fahrenheit temperature.
According to Doctors without Boarders spokeswoman Shaista Aziz, between 10 to 15 percent of refugee children in a 110-bed capacity feeding center are dying and a high percentage even in an emergency.
According to Aziz, most of the dying ones are from the refugee camps.
She added that dozens of babies and children with matchstick limbs and protruding rib cages fill the tents of the feeding center.