LAGOS: Two million people in need of assistance in Boko Haram-hit **rtheast Nigeria are cut off from help, the UN said on Tuesday, warning the scale of a food crisis could be worse than thought. The UN children’s agency Unicef said on July 1 that 250,000 children under five in Bor** state were at risk from severe acute malnutrition this year and 50,000 could die if **thing was done.
It repeated the warning on Tuesday but said access to people in hard-to-reach areas was still limited, if **t impossible, with the Islamist militants an ever-present danger.
"There are two million people we are still **t able to reach in Bor** state, which means the true scope of this crisis has yet to be revealed to the world," said Manuel Fontaine, Unicef’s regional director for Western and Central Africa.
07-20-2016, 06:18 PM
Nigeria food crisis could be worse than thought: UN
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