UNICEF: More than 2.1 million children in humanitarian crisis in Niger vaticannews.va

More than 3.8 million people in Niger are being hit by a severe humanitarian crisis, including 2.1 million children. A combination of factors such as conflict, displacement, food insecurity, malnutrition, recurrent disease epidemics and outbreaks, climate-related disasters and the socioeconomic impacts of Covid-19 have led to the emergency in the land-locked West African nation.

The United Nations children’s fund, UNICEF, raised the alarm on Friday saying the people affected show a 30 per cent increase over 2020. It called for increased attention and mobilization to the plight of those children and families who, it said, “suffer in silence.”…

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