Worsening malnutrition crisis prompts government call for Agri-Food funding - NaijaAgroNet

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Nigeria is facing a severe food insecurity and malnutrition crisis, with an estimated 31 million people food-insecure and over 10 million children under five acutely malnourished, reports NaijaAgroNet.

In a joint communique issued on World Humanitarian Day, the Federal Government of Nigeria and the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator sounded the alarm, highlighting that "pipelines for food and nutrition that are lifelines for millions of people, especially children under the age of five, are severely disrupted, if not completely depleted".

Pope Francis receives indigenous leaders who call for climate justice - NaijaAgtoNet

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The head of the Catholic Church, the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State, Pope Francis, has met some 40 indigenous leaders in a private audience, report NaijaAgroNet.

The leaders also used the opportunity to raise their concerns about the toll that extractive and exploitive industries fueling the global economy were having on growing inequality, preventing access to basic human rights and hindering environmental sustainability.