UNICEF: Two million children in Niger need help

 UNICEF: Two million children in Niger need help The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, said that over two million children in Nige...

 UNICEF: Two million children in Niger need help

The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, said that over two million children in Niger are in need of aid as the country is in the midst of a coup d'état and is also dealing with the problem of terrorists.

In the announcement that he issued this Monday, the fund announced that before the military coup on July 27, one and a half million children under the age of five in Niger were suffering from measles and another thousand 430 are suffering from severe form of the disease.

UNICEF also added that the power outage in Nigeria following the pressure on the soldiers who overthrew the ECOWAS government has worsened the situation and caused the threat of damage to the needles stored in the country's hospitals. child care.

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The fund called on those involved in the coup d'état crisis in Niger to immediately open the gates for its workers to enter Niger in order to deliver the relief goods stuck at the borders of the country and to call on the rich and wealthy to stop the support they give to Niger in the field of child care.