Graves are being dug daily to bury victims – mostly children – of the malnutrition in the second largest centre in Borno State that’s cut off by Boko Haram militants.

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A Medicines Sans Frontiers  team accessed Bama where 24 000 people, including 15 000 children, are living in a camp located in a hospital compound.

It discovered an acute health crisis.

A fifth of the more than 800 children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition.

Sixteen severely malnourished children at immediate risk of death were taken to the MSF in-patient therapeutic feeding centre in the state capital Maiduguri.

The team counted 1 233 graves near the camp that have been dug in the past year; 480 of them are for children who had starved to death at a rate of between eight and 30 a day.

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