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Ngala, Nigeria: Emergency aid to victims of violence and displacement

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MSF178437

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Ngala, Nigeria: Emergency aid to victims of violence and displacement

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF178437

Date taken / Date Recorded 14/10/2016 12:00 AM

Country Nigeria

Photographer / videographer / producer Sylvain Cherkaoui

Usage Rights (MSF) Advertising Campaign, External Media, MSF Fundraising, Social Media

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Editor's rating ★★★★★ (C)

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Additional Information / Shotlist On 13 November, MSF teams from Cameroon managed to access Ngala in Nigeria for the second time.

Some 78,000 internally displaced people live there in a camp and receive little external assistance. MSF provided food, relief items and medical care, and screened over 7,000 of children for malnutrition and vaccinated them against measles.

Over twenty per cent of the children were found to suffer from malnutrition. MSF teams also started to improve the water supply.

In the town of Gambaru, a few kilometers from Ngala, MSF teams vaccinated over 8,000 children under the age of five against measles and also screened them for malnutrition. Ten per cent were malnourished and received food aid and medical care. The town’s estimated 70,000 residents lack basic food supplies and have no access to healthcare.

The only health centre was burnt down, and the road is too dangerous for people to leave to seek care elsewhere.

Keywords

Boko Haram

Nigeria

Camp for Displaced People

Displaced Person

Forced Displacement

Violence