More than 1,200 die of starvation and illness at Nigeria refugee camp

[zenitzz]

More than 1,200 people have died of starvation and illness at an aid camp in north-east Nigeria that houses people fleeing the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, according to the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières.

MSF said on Thursday that its team found 24,000 people, including 15,000 children, sheltering in the camp located on a hospital compound during a visit to Bama last month – its first trip there since the city was wrested from Boko Haram’s control in March 2015.

Bama was part of an area held by Boko Haram for more than six months before the group was pushed out by the army.


Boko Haram massacre women in north-east Nigerian village
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MSF said a “catastrophic humanitarian emergency” was unfolding at the camp. It said around a fifth of the 800 children who underwent medical screening were acutely malnourished and almost 500 children had died.

Read more ; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/23/refugees-die-starvation-illness-nigeria-camp-bama-boko-haram

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[BADecker]

They didn't die. NASA simply gave them each their own planet at "More than 1,200 new planets that could hold life found" https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1467947.msg14812141#msg14812141.

[escrowboy]

More than 1,200 people have died of starvation and illness at an aid camp in north-east Nigeria that houses people fleeing the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, according to the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières.

MSF said on Thursday that its team found 24,000 people, including 15,000 children, sheltering in the camp located on a hospital compound during a visit to Bama last month – its first trip there since the city was wrested from Boko Haram’s control in March 2015.

Bama was part of an area held by Boko Haram for more than six months before the group was pushed out by the army.


Boko Haram massacre women in north-east Nigerian village
 Read more
MSF said a “catastrophic humanitarian emergency” was unfolding at the camp. It said around a fifth of the 800 children who underwent medical screening were acutely malnourished and almost 500 children had died.

Read more ; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/23/refugees-die-starvation-illness-nigeria-camp-bama-boko-haram

And no one bats an eye about it. No international report or any thing that may notice them. Well, I think that's how things really goes  

[bryant.coleman]

Nigeria is an over-populated and ultra-religious country (population is approaching the 200 million mark). These factors causes warfare on a massive scale, and to bring peace the root causes must be addressed. Family planning and secular education must be popularized in Nigeria, and this will counter radical fringe groups such as the Boko Haram.

[BADecker]

More than 1,200 people have died of starvation and illness at an aid camp in north-east Nigeria that houses people fleeing the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, according to the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières.

MSF said on Thursday that its team found 24,000 people, including 15,000 children, sheltering in the camp located on a hospital compound during a visit to Bama last month – its first trip there since the city was wrested from Boko Haram’s control in March 2015.

Bama was part of an area held by Boko Haram for more than six months before the group was pushed out by the army.


Boko Haram massacre women in north-east Nigerian village
 Read more
MSF said a “catastrophic humanitarian emergency” was unfolding at the camp. It said around a fifth of the 800 children who underwent medical screening were acutely malnourished and almost 500 children had died.

Read more ; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/23/refugees-die-starvation-illness-nigeria-camp-bama-boko-haram

And no one bats an eye about it. No international report or any thing that may notice them. Well, I think that's how things really goes  

So, you do something about it.   

[xht]

the issue of death and malnutrition because of poverty on the African continent will be difficult to solve. as long as there is no development of job opportunities there.

[techgeek]

the issue of death and malnutrition because of poverty on the African continent will be difficult to solve. as long as there is no development of job opportunities there.

This can actually resolve now if soylent or similar companies that make nutrition meal drinks were more pro-active on as some hunger campaign.

They can send so many of these bulk packages and no one would go hungry. As for the job part thats a different story, but I guess this story just never got any traction?

If its on facebook in the trending head lines that def would get something done.

[groll]

This is a sad story to read.  They were in this camp after fleeing away from Boko Haram but still found theirselves in another kind of terror.  Their government should make sure that they will give their support and care to this people since it is, I think, their responsibility in taking care these refugees.   Many children died because of the malnourishment brought by lack or inadequate food to eat.