Humanitarian emergency grips Nigerian aid camp
LAGOS- More than 1,200 people have died from starvation and illness at an aid camp in northeastern Nigeria that houses people fleeing the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Thursday.
MSF said its team found 24,000 people, including 15,000 children, sheltering in the camp located on a hospital compound during a visit to Bama last month - its first trip to the city since it was wrested from Boko Haram's control in March 2015.
The city was part of an area around the size of Belgium that was held by Boko Haram for more than six months before being pushed out by the army.
