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Nigeria: When Survival Is Not Enough – Malnutrition in Abuja’s Wassa Displacement Camp

Nigeria: When Survival Is Not Enough – Malnutrition in Abuja’s Wassa Displacement Camp

What happens when fleeing from conflict leads straight into the arms of hunger?

Reyan Safianu, 45, is struggling to make ends meet while caring for her nine children in Wassa, a displacement camp in the outskirts of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. She and Mohammad Safianu, her husband, who currently washes vehicles for a living, have lived in the camp for over ten years. Before displacement, Reyan worked as a tailor, but she is now unemployed and battling daily to support her family. With no access to…

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