Malnutrition on the Rise for Children in Northern Cameroon

Some 100,000 children, including Nigerian refugees fleeing attacks from the extremist sect Boko Haram, are suffering from acute malnutrition in northern Cameroon. Hospitals are overwhelmed. Health officials and United Nations agencies have been visiting the children and are promising assistance. Badyne Mansto cries as her five-year-old child is buried near her house in Maroua, northern Cameroon.  She told VOA the child lost weight and died at a private hospital two hours after she...

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