Economics
Half a Million Nigerians Could Go Hungry for Lack of Funding, UN Says
- Number of displaced persons in northeast at an all-time high
- The rising food crisis compounds Nigeria’s security situation
A resident receives a pre-paid debt card for cash and food provided by World Food Programme in a makeshift home in the Makoko riverine slum settlement in Lagos, Nigeria in 2020.
Photographer: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images
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The United Nations World Food Programme warned that it is on the verge of reducing food rations to half a million people in Nigeria’s northeast due to lack of funding.
“The cuts would come just as severe hunger reaches a five-year high in the country in the wake of years of conflict and insecurity,” according to an emailed statement on Friday.