Over 50,000 people in Nigeria’s north-east are at risk of starvation due to the activities of the Boko Haram militant group, the United Nations said in a statement.
According to Sputnik News, some areas in the northeastern state of Borno are too dangerous for humanitarian organizations’ employees, who are engaged in the delivery of food to civilians in conflict zones. As a result, almost 54,000 of the state’s residents are in a "catastrophic" situation, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) system, The Financial Times newspaper reported Thursday citing the UN report.
