About 6.4 million Nigerian children are expected to be acutely malnourished by the end of the year, putting impossible pressure on scarce treatment centres About 6.4 million Nigerian children are expected to be acutely malnourished by the end of the year, putting impossible pressure on scarce treatment centres Zuwaira Hanafi watches over eight-month-old Hambali as she is treated for acute malnutrition Clockwise from top left: a family walks through the front gate of the Alima medical facility