United Nations, Dhu-AlHijjah 28, 1437, September 29, 2016, SP -- As many as 75,000 children will die over the next year in famine-like conditions created by Boko Haram if donors do not respond quickly, the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned Thursday. The estimate is far more than the 20,000 people killed in the seven-year extremist insurgency. The severity of malnutrition levels and high number of children facing death make the humanitarian crisis confronting northeastern Nigeria perhaps the worst in the world, according to UNICEF nutrition chief for Nigeria Arjan de Wagt. He said children already are dying but donors are not responding. Severe malnutrition is being found in between 20 and 50 percent of children in some areas of the region, the UNICEF official said. “Globally, you just don’t see this. You have to go back to places like Somalia five years ago to see these kinds of levels,” de Wagt said. Nearly 260,000 people died in Somalia between 2010 and 2012 from severe drought aggravated by conflict. -- SPA 21:44 LOCAL TIME 18:44 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w