{"id":202927,"date":"2025-07-21T09:11:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-when-survival-is-not-enough-malnutrition-in-abujas-wassa-displacement-camp\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T09:11:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:11:03","slug":"nigeria-when-survival-is-not-enough-malnutrition-in-abujas-wassa-displacement-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-when-survival-is-not-enough-malnutrition-in-abujas-wassa-displacement-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: When Survival Is Not Enough &#8211; Malnutrition in Abuja&#8217;s Wassa Displacement Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><em>What happens when fleeing from conflict leads straight into the arms of hunger?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"87\">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&#8217;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&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507210060.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s capital. She and Mohammad Safianu, her husband, who currently washes vehicles for a living, have lived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[23435,258,256,6835,6318,2251,257,4687,393,254,15938,35883],"class_list":["post-202927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abujas","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-camp","tag-displacement","tag-malnutrition","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-survival","tag-wassa"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}