Red Cross sounds alarm over Nigeria child malnutrition

LAGOS: The Red Cross raised the alarm on Tuesday over a sharp increase in severe child malnutrition in Nigeria´s conflict-hit northeast.

Clinics it supports in the region have reported a 24-percent rise in the number of severely malnourished young children admitted this year, it said.

A 15-year insurgency waged by Boko Haram and other jihadist groups in the northeast has killed more than 40,000 people and left around two million displaced. The fighting has also ruined livelihoods and hindered access to agricultural land and markets.