According to a report by NGO Save the Children, about 550,000 babies died during different conflicts in Nigeria between 2013 and 2017.
The research also found out that 420 million children were living in conflict-affected areas in 2017 (18 per cent of all children worldwide) — up 30 million from the previous year.
The research placed Afghanistan, Yemen, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Syria, Iraq, Mali, Nigeria and Somalia as the countries where children were hardest hit by conflict in 2017.
Save the Children attributed the death toll to indirect effects of conflict such as hunger, lack of access to health and denial of aids.