MSF expresses concern over malnutrition crisis in NW Nigeria

LAGOS, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)/ Doctors Without Borders, an international humanitarian medical non-governmental organization, on Tuesday expressed concern over the malnutrition crisis in northwest Nigeria.

MSF teams have witnessed extraordinarily high numbers of children with malnutrition in MSF's programs in five states across northwest Nigeria this year, said Simba Tirima, MSF country representative in Nigeria, in a statement Tuesday.