More than 120,000 people, most of them children, are at risk of starving to

death next year in areas of Nigeria affected by the Boko Haram insurgency,
the United Nations is warning.
Intense fighting in parts of Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon has left
more than 2 million people displaced, farmers unable to harvest their crops
and aid groups unable to reach isolated communities. One small state
in Nigeria has more displaced people than the entire refugee influx that
arrived in Europe last year.
A Guardian correspondent saw dozens of skeletal babies at a makeshift
camp in the regional centre Maiduguri. Many had plastic nodules stuck to
their skull, to allow the nurses to attach them to a drip. Many children are
so thin their scalp is the only place where a visible vein can be found.
And yet despite these appalling scenes, Maiduguri is among the best served
places in a region the size of Belgium. Much of the area is still insecure
because of the war with Boko Haram, and countless thousands have not
made it to population centres where some degree of care is available.
Orla Fagan, a Nigeria-based spokesperson for UNs Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), said: Youre looking at
over 120,000 deaths next year if you cant get aid to them and theyre
mostly children. If we cant