Informes

1. Sahel Food and Nutrition Crisis UNICEF and partners projected that 208,000 children will be treated for Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) and approximately 794,225 for Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) by the end of 2012. 2. Flooding disaster in…

Elevated acute food insecurity likely following flooding and civil insecurity Several months after unusually widespread flooding (July to October) caused substantial population displacement and crop damage; flood‐affected households have yet to fully recover their livelihoods. A recent…

ABUJA — Children with blood diseases in Nigeria go almost entirely undiagnosed and very few go to school. Activists say they are hoping to save lives by raising awareness of hemophilia and helping some individual…

Sorghum, maize, millet, cowpea, gari (fermented cassava starch), and rice are all found in Nigerian markets. Sorghum, millet and maize are widely consumed by most households, but especially in the north, and are used by various…

Civil insecurity and floods will cause food insecurity levels to increase KEY MESSAGES • Several months after widespread flooding caused substantial population displacement and significant crop damage, flood-affected households have yet to fully recover their livelihoods. Below-average household…

Une production agricole réduite au Nigeria; les prix régionaux augmenteront probablement plus que prévu Une récente évaluation conjointe réalisée par FEWS NET, OCHA, PAM, CILSS, et NEMA a révélé que les dégâts causés suite aux inondations de…

Staple food production decreases in Nigeria; regional prices likely to rise unseasonably A recent assessment by FEWS NET and partners indicates that crop damage from 2012 flooding in Nigeria was more severe than initially reported. As a…

KANO, 15 February 2013 (IRIN) - Unknown gunmen on mopeds shot dead 10 polio vaccinators last week in separate attacks on two polio clinics in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, capital of a polio-endemic region…

Heather Murdock ABUJA — More than nine months after the funds were allocated, the Nigerian government has begun cleaning a village that could be the world's worst lead poisoning site. Activists are cautiously optimistic that the move is…

On 8 February, two health facilities in Kano state, Nigeria, were attacked, killing eleven people, including health workers, and injuring several others. Such attacks on health workers are absolutely and unconditionally unacceptable, and must be condemned in…