Malnutrition has been killed in Nigeria 652 children in the past six months, says Doctors Without Borders | Hunger news

The charity says that deaths have occurred due to financing discounts by international donors amid security in northern Nigeria.

At least 652 children died due to malnutrition in the Nigerian state of Katsina in the first six months of 2025, according to the doctors without limits.

The Charitable Society, which is known by the goals of the French MSF, said in a statement on Friday that the deaths were caused by international donor financing discounts, such as Katsina, in the north of the country, suffering from violence and insecurity.

“We are currently witnessing huge budget discounts, especially from the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union, which has a real impact on the treatment of children with malnutrition,” said MSF.

NGOs, by the end of June of this year, said that nearly 70,000 children suffer from malnutrition have already received medical care from MSF teams in Katsina State, including nearly 10,000 who were transferred to the hospital in serious condition.

However, he stressed that the need to prevent and treat malnutrition in northern Nigeria, and that urgent mobilization was required.

In northern Nigeria, other factors that increase malnutrition include diseases, which are paid by covering a low vaccine, availability, access to basic health services, and other complex social and economic indicators. Security and violence.

Doctors Without Borders said that the number of children in Katsina who has the most malnutrition has increased by about 208 percent this year compared to the same period last year, and “unfortunately, 652 children have already died in our facilities since the beginning of 2025.”

Banditry enhances Katsina, where insecurity led to the displacement of many people, forcing them to abandon their farms. The government has struggled, along with local civil alert groups, to contain bandits.

Freezing central treatment

On Wednesday, the United Nations Food Agency said it would have to suspend food aid and nutrition for 1.3 million people in Nigeria The conflict struck the northeast By the end of July, the shares have run out due to “the deficiency of critical financing.”

“We will face a tragic fact, to suspend humanitarian aid to the population in the areas destroyed by the conflict,” said Margot van der Villan, head of the World Food Program (WFP.

This means that more than 1.3 million people in Nigeria will lose food and food support, 150 nutrition clinics in Borno, which suffers from conflict in the northeast, may be closed, and 300,000 children will be at the risk of severe malnutrition, and 700,000 people from the displaced “will not leave any way to stay.”

For years, the United States Agency for International Development (the United States Agency for International Development) was the backbone of the humanitarian response in northeastern Nigeria, which helped NGOs to provide food, shelter and health care for millions of people.

The Trump administration has reduced external assistance and the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development, accusing the waste and fraud agency and the support of a liberal agenda. Other Western donors also reduced the spending of international aid.

Nigeria has allocated 200 billion Nayira ($ 130 million) this year to rid the deficiency of financing to the health sector by the United States.