75,000 Nigerian Children Risk Dying of Hunger in a Few Months - U.N.

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Nigeria Boko Haram: 75,000 children 'risk dying of hunger' - BBC News

UN humanitarian co-ordinator Peter Lundberg said that overall 14 million people needed humanitarian assistance in a region that was the former stronghold of Boko Haram militants.

He warned that the UN did not have enough funds to avert the crisis.

Boko Haram jihadists laid waste to the region before being pushed back by Nigerian forces in recent months.

"Currently our assessment is that 14 million people are identified as in need of humanitarian assistance" by 2017, Mr Lundberg said in Nigeria's capital Abuja on Tuesday.

He added that this figure included some 400,000 children, and that 75,000 of them "are going to die in the few months ahead of us... if we don't do something rapidly and seriously".

Tens of thousands of people have been killed and more than two million displaced since Boko Haram began its military operations in 2009 in the Borno state and other areas.

In July, the UN warned that almost a quarter of a million children in parts of Borno were suffering from severe malnutrition.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

How many in America risk the same thing?

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

I'll answer my own question.

USDA ERS - Key Statistics & Graphics

Food Security Status of U.S. Households with Children in 2015
Among U.S. households with children under age 18:

• 83.4 percent were food secure in 2015.
• In 8.8 percent of households with children, only adults were food insecure.
• Both children and adults were food insecure in 7.8 percent of households with children (3.0 million households).
• Although children are usually protected from substantial reductions in food intake even in households with very low food security, nevertheless, in about 0.7 percent of households with children (274,000 households), one or more child also experienced reduced food intake and disrupted eating patterns at some time during the year.

 

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I'll answer my own question.

USDA ERS - Key Statistics & Graphics

Food Security Status of U.S. Households with Children in 2015
Among U.S. households with children under age 18:

• 83.4 percent were food secure in 2015.
• In 8.8 percent of households with children, only adults were food insecure.
• Both children and adults were food insecure in 7.8 percent of households with children (3.0 million households).
• Although children are usually protected from substantial reductions in food intake even in households with very low food security, nevertheless, in about 0.7 percent of households with children (274,000 households), one or more child also experienced reduced food intake and disrupted eating patterns at some time during the year.

Ok, but we're talking about 75,000 children starving to death in 2-3 months...... with the blame being placed squarely on Boko Haram. I don't know what your intentions are with this comparison, but why undermine these African children?