Young girls collecting water from a pump in Nigeria. At least 2.3 million children and youth are going hungry in northeastern Nigeria, of which hundreds of thousands are under the age of 5, as Nigerian security forces continue a more than decade-long war against Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province.

First published in the August 10, 2021, 4:41 a.m. edition

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