Nigeria, July 29 -- Northern Nigeria is currently facing an alarming malnutrition crisis. In Katsina state, where Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has been present since 2021, the teams are seeing an ever-increasing number of malnourished children in its therapeutic feeding centers, with increasingly severe conditions.

The reasons for northern Nigeria's malnutrition crisis are complex, including economic factors that have made food unaffordable for many people, insecurity and violence affecting large regions, disease outbreaks worsened by low vaccine coverage, and a lack of other basic health services. Cuts to international aid now threaten to deepen the crisis.

Since 2022, MSF has witnessed an increasing trend in ...