MSF Reports Humanitarian Catastrophe in Nigeria's Borno State

Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF) is calling for a major aid response to a humanitarian catastrophe in northeastern Nigeria's war-torn Borno state, where at least 500,000 people are in urgent need of food, medical care, water and shelter. "Aid agencies must deploy a massive relief operation to respond to this humanitarian emergency," Dr. Isabelle Defourny, MSF director of operations, said in a statement Wednesday. As the Nigerian army...

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