News: Nigeria's Fighting Cuts Food

A doctor attends to a malnourished child at a refugee camp in Yola, Nigeria. Doctors Without Borders says nearly 200 refugees from Boko Haram have died of starvation and dehydration in the city of Bama in the past month.

 Lagos — 
As many as six people are dying daily from disease and malnutrition at a northeastern Nigeria camp for people displaced by Boko Haram violence, Doctors Without Borders said.
The aid group called the situation at a hospital where 24,000 people are sheltering in the town of Bama a “catastrophic humanitarian emergency.”
Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said the dire conditions in Bama are a result of recent fighting between the military and the Boko Haram insurgency.
NEMA spokesman Abdul Ibrahim said most of the people who are ill at the camp have recently arrived in Bama from isolated areas that have become battlefields between the military and the insurgents.
“Because they’ve been in communities that were cut off without access, they couldn’t get food and medical supplies in those locations,” Ibrahim said.