UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Nigeria, Munir Safieldin, said in the OCHA news release. “Unless we scale up now, seven to eight children will die of severe acute malnutrition every hour; 184 children will die every day. We need resources now to scale up our current response.”

CERF is a pooled fund in which donors preposition funds so that money is available immediately to kick-start relief operations in new emergencies and to provide live-saving assistance in crises that are underfunded.

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