Nearly 5.4 million children aged 0-59 months in northwest and northeast Nigeria are suffering from acute malnutrition and will likely continue suffering through 2025. This includes about 1.8 million cases of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) and 3.6 million cases of Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM). [...]

It is estimated that nearly 4.4 million children aged 0 – 59 months are suffering and will likely continue suffering from acute malnutrition in the period of May 2023 – April 2024 in northwest and northeast Nigeria. This includes 1.04 million cases of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) and 3.37 mil [...]

It is projected that nearly 6 million children aged 0-59 months have likely been suffering and will likely continue to suffer from acute malnutrition in the period of May 2022 – April 2023 in Northwest and Northeast Nigeria. This includes 1,623,130 Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) cases and 4,308,4 [...]

Over 1.3 million children under the age of five are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition in North East Nigeria between January and December 2022, based on the Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) by Weight-for-Height Z-score (WHZ) prevalence estimates. This includes approximately 316,753 Severe Acu [...]

The humanitarian crisis in North East Nigeria has become protracted, with conflict leading to widespread displacement, destroyed infrastructure and collapsed basic social services. Inadequate access to safe nutritious food, especially in the context of rising food prices, has led to poor feeding [...]

How Severe, How Many and When – Of the 61 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states included in the IPC Acute Malnutrition current analysis (September – December 2020), seven LGAs were classified in IPC AMN Phase 4 (Critical), 19 LGAs were in IPC AMN Phase 3 (Serious), 21 L [...]

How Severe, How Many and When – Of the 10 domains included in the IPC Acute Malnutrition analysis, 4 domains are classified in IPC Phase 3 (Serious) acute malnutrition while the other 6 domains are in IPC Phase 2 (Alert). The situation is expected to get worse in 3 domains and a total of 7 domains [...]