Red Cross Report On How Hopeless and hungry mothers in Lake Chad resort to prostitution to feed their children

"When you don't have the means to survive, you'll go begging for it. It's a loss of dignity when you're having to resort to something like that just to keep your children alive - fraternising with people who have money."  

The unfolding catastrophe in the Lake Chad basin was named the most neglected crisis of 2016 in a poll of aid agencies by the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Overshadowed by the wars in Syria and Iraq and the global refugee and migrant crisis, Lake Chad has barely made the headlines, Brooks said during an interview in London. More than 7 million people lack food but insecurity makes it hard for aid agencies to reach the most vulnerable. 

Half a million children are severely acutely malnourished and on the brink of death if they are not treated, Brooks said. "This area has suffered from decades of chronic neglect ... if it continues to be under-funded and under-reported, then millions of people will continue to suffer," he said.

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