聯合國兒童基金會 尼日利亞近25萬兒童嚴重營養不良

Almost a quarter of a million children in parts of Nigeria's Borno state formerly controlled by Boko Haram are suffering from severe malnutrition, the UN children's agency says.

聯合國兒童基金會日前表示，以前由博科聖地所管轄的尼日利亞博爾諾州地區，一百萬名兒童中有近四分之一嚴重營養不良。

Tens of thousands will die if treatment does not reach them soon, Unicef warns.

聯合國兒童基金會警告稱，如果不盡快接收治療，成千上萬名兒童將面臨死亡。

In areas where Boko Haram militants had been in control, it found people without water, food or sanitation.

在博科聖地武裝分子所控制的地區，那裏的人們沒有水、食物以及衛生設施供應。

It said that of the 244,000 children found to be suffering from severe acute malnutrition in Borno, almost one in five would die if they were not reached with treatment.

據悉，在博爾諾州，244000名兒童患有嚴重急性營養不良，如果不接收治療，近五分之一的兒童會面臨死亡。

'Some 134 children on average will die every day from causes linked to acute malnutrition if the response is not scaled up quickly', said Manuel Fontaine, Unicef's Regional Director for Western and Central Africa. 'We need all partners and donors to step forward to prevent any more children from dying. No-one can take on a crisis of this scale alone.'

“如果響應不迅速擴大，平均每天將有134名兒童死於急性營養不良，”聯合國兒童基金會非洲中西部區域主任曼努埃爾·方丹如是說。“我們需要所有合作伙伴和捐助，共同努力來阻止更多的兒童面臨死亡。沒有人能獨自處理這種規模的危機。”

'There are two million people we are still not able to reach in Borno state, which means that the true scope of this crisis has yet to be revealed to the world', he added. 'There are organisations on the ground doing great work, but none of us are able to work at the scale and quality that we need. We must all scale up.'

“目前還有兩百萬人無法達到博爾諾州，這意味着這場危機的真正規模尚未向世界展露，” 他補充道。“一些組織在做一些偉大的工作，但是規模和質量還遠遠不夠，我們必須擴大規模。”