Nigeria

A BBC World Service episode of The Food Chain examines whether eating healthily is more expensive, drawing on UN Food and Agriculture Organization data to identify where a nutritious basket of food costs the most and why billions of people worldwide are priced out of a varied diet. It features a Nigerian mother struggling to afford healthy basics and an unemployed Arizona woman who has lost SNAP benefits, and explores "food deserts" through a mobile fruit and vegetable bus in Liverpool.

Rising food costs in Nigeria, driven by the US war on Iran, are worsening food insecurity and malnutrition, medics warn. Nigerians struggling with the rising cost of living told Al Jazeera's Ahmed Idris about the impact.

An armed group killed 15 people in the village of Madegoua near Makary in Cameroon's Far North region on Wednesday, prompting hundreds to flee from 10 nearby villages toward Kousseri, Mora and Waza. Displaced residents reported no government assistance, and the influx has strained health services in border towns near Nigeria amid fears of a humanitarian crisis. No group claimed responsibility, though a security analyst said the attack was likely carried out by the ISIL affiliate in West Africa Province.

Noma, a neglected tropical disease that disfigures and often kills malnourished children, is affecting a growing number of children in northern Nigeria, where Doctors Without Borders is providing free reconstructive surgeries. The World Health Organization estimates 140,000 cases annually with a 90% fatality rate, though data has not been updated since 1998, and a recent Lancet study recorded over 50,000 cases across 12 northern Nigerian states between 1999 and 2024. Experts attribute the disease's spread to extreme poverty, severe malnutrition and armed violence, with many children arriving for treatment too late.