The uprising of Islamists in the north-east of Nigeria was the cause of hunger among 2.3 million children and adolescents. This is reported in the report of the charitable organization Save the Children.
Mass attacks of militants on the village forced the peasants to leave their putors, which provoked the food crisis in the agricultural country. Of the 2.3 million minor hungry, about 700 thousand were not five years old. In the total aggregate without food in the country there are more than four million citizens.
According to Reuters, the UN considers the current scale of the food catastrophe in Nigeria the most largest since the beginning of the Islamist uprising in 2015. At the same time, charitable organizations expect hunger only to grow in the coming years. Other disaster factors are called climatic conditions and a coronavirus pandemic.
In Nigeria, a severe security situation is maintained. On August 4, 68 people were killed in the north-west of the country for several villages in the north-west of the country, 63 houses were burned and 68 hectares of peasant land were destroyed. On the same day, militants demanded to collect 194 thousand dollars for the liberation of 80 children captured at the boarding school of Kadun.