Food Crisis in North-West, Nigeria (2022)

With growing insecurity, farmer-herder crisis, rising food costs, and climate change in North-west Nigeria, children are at risk of malnutrition.

I documented MSF's efforts to treat and prevent malnutrition amongst vulnerable children in Kebbi and Sokoto states.


Photographs by KC Nwakalor

Location: Kebbi & Sokoto, Nigeria

Client: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Links: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/nigeria-health-and-malnutrition-crisis-continues-unfold-northwest

https://www.msf.org/un-must-urgently-recognise-malnutrition-crisis-northwest-nigeria

Amaka Joseph, 35, tends to her recovering child at an ITFC facility at Specialist Hospital Sokoto, Nigeria on Friday 22 July 2022.
A team of Nurses weighs and record the weight of admitted but recovering malnourished children at an ITFC facility at Specialist Hospital Sokoto, Nigeria on Friday 22 July 2022
New patients arrive at an ATFC facility in Kende Primary Health Center, Bagudo, Kebbi, Nigeria on Wednesday 20 July 2022.
Portrait of Rabi Auwali, 30, and her daughter, Baraka Auwali, 10 months, at an ATFC facility in Maiyama Primary Health Center, Kebbi, Nigeria on Tuesday 19 July 2022.
Rayyah, a Project Assistant addresses new patients arriving at MSF’s ATFC facility in Kende Primary Health Center, Bagudo, Kebbi, Nigeria on Wednesday 20 July 2022.
Interior shots of the stabilization ward at an ITFC facility in Maiyama General Hospital, Kebbi, Nigeria on Tuesday 19 July 2022.
Portrait of Rahina Auwal, 25, and her child, Rabi Auwal, 14 months at an ITFC facility in Maiyama General Hospital, Kebbi, Nigeria on Tuesday 19 July 2022.
Safaratu Tambaya, Nutrition Support Officer, pours rationed therapeutic milk into containers for patients at an ITFC facility in Maiyama General Hospital, Kebbi, Nigeria on Tuesday 19 July 2022.
New patients waiting to be attended to by a health care officer at an ATFC facility in Kende Primary Health Center, Bagudo, Kebbi, Nigeria on Wednesday 20 July 2022
Hannatu Bello, 27 and her twin daughters Hassana and Hussena, 1.5months, as they make their way out of an ATFC facility in Kende Primary Health Center, Bagudo, Kebbi, Nigeria on Wednesday 20 July 2022
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