France, July 26 -- More than 600 malnourished children have died in northern Nigeria in six months after failing to receive proper care as foreign aid dries up, medical charity Doctors Without Borders has said.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said northern Nigeria, which already is struggling with insurgency and banditry, is "currently facing an alarming malnutrition crisis".

In the first half of 2025, its teams treated nearly 70,000 children for malnutrition in Katsina state, nearly 10,000 of whom had to be hospitalised.

During the same period, cases of nutritional oedema- the most severe and deadly form of malnutrition among children - jumped by 208 percent from the same period in 2024.

"Unfortunately, 652 children have already died i...