{"id":136996,"date":"2024-11-05T14:36:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T13:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/hunger-crisis-one-million-children-expected-to-suffer-acute-malnutrition-in-2025-group"},"modified":"2024-11-05T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T14:40:00","slug":"hunger-crisis-one-million-children-expected-to-suffer-acute-malnutrition-in-2025-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/hunger-crisis-one-million-children-expected-to-suffer-acute-malnutrition-in-2025-group","title":{"rendered":"Hunger Crisis: One million children expected to suffer acute malnutrition in 2025 \u2013 Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Save the Children International has revealed that an additional one million children in Nigeria will be suffering from acute malnutrition by April 2025 without urgent action as extreme flooding, escalating violence and rampant food shortages fuel a deepening hunger crisis.<\/p>\n<p>It noted that analysis of new hunger data from Cadre Harmonise\u0301\u2014the leading regional authority on the severity of hunger crises in the Sahel and West Africa\u2014showed that 5.4 million children are now at risk of facing acute malnutrition by next April, a 25 per cent increase compared to the 4.4 per cent in April, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Save the Children\u2019s Country Director, Duncan Harvey in a statement issued Tuesday stressed that about 1.8 million could be experiencing Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) \u2013 the deadliest form of malnutrition that compromises children\u2019s immune systems and turns otherwise treatable illnesses, such as diarrhoea, potentially lethal.<\/p>\n<p>He added that this represents an alarming 80 per cent increase in SAM cases.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey noted: \u201cAn additional one million children in Nigeria will be suffering from acute malnutrition by April next year without urgent action as extreme flooding, escalating violence and rampant food shortages fuel a deepening hunger crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Nigeria, the crisis is reaching unprecedented levels as catastrophic climate disasters, escalating insecurity, and soaring prices threaten to leave over 16 million children hungry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUrgent action is essential to combat this devastating and unacceptable trend of child hunger and malnutrition and ensure a brighter future for Nigeria\u2019s children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harvey explained that during this year\u2019s lean season \u2013 the season between harvests \u2013 about 31.8 million people were estimated to be facing crisis or worse acute food insecurity<\/p>\n<p>According to him, next year, it is predicted that 33 million people in Nigeria will not know where their next meal will come from, including over 16 million children.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey emphasised that hunger has risen sharply in Nigeria in recent years, up from about 7 per cent of the population analysed by the UN in 2020 to 15 per cent currently.<\/p>\n<p>He said the situation is particularly dire in the Northwest and Northeast of the country, where ongoing conflict and insecurity are driving displacement and disrupting livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p>With a population of about 230 million, Nigeria is highly vulnerable to the impacts of the climate crisis while expanding desertification is consuming farmland and limiting communities\u2019 ability to grow food.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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