- U.S. commits $32.5m to hunger relief in Nigeria’s northeast.
- Aid to support over 764,000 people, including women and children.
- Borno State faces critical food shortage; clinics may shut down.
The United States’ Trump-led government has announced a $32.5 million humanitarian aid package aimed at tackling hunger and malnutrition in Nigeria’s conflict-affected northeast, with Borno State set to receive the bulk of the support.
Eko Hot Blog reports that according to a statement from the U.S. Mission in Nigeria, the funding will focus on delivering food supplies and nutrition assistance to hundreds of thousands of people displaced by over a decade of insurgency in the region.
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The new intervention is expected to reach more than 764,000 people, including over 41,500 pregnant and breastfeeding women, as well as more than 43,000 children facing acute malnutrition.
Borno State remains the epicentre of the crisis, with aid groups warning that over 1.3 million people may be left without food. At least 150 nutrition centres risk shutting down if urgent help does not arrive.
In Maiduguri, the capital, only one in-patient centre for severely malnourished children remains operational run by Italian humanitarian agency, Intersos.
Margot van der Velden, Regional Director for West Africa at the World Food Programme (WFP), raised alarm earlier, saying the shortage of funding had forced WFP to halt food distribution in parts of West and Central Africa.
She cautioned that “millions are at risk” with food stocks in affected countries, including Nigeria, expected to run out by September.
Northern Nigeria continues to suffer from escalating insecurity, which has claimed the lives of over 35,000 civilians and displaced more than two million people.
The ongoing conflict between farmers and herders in the northwest and north-central regions has worsened food shortages across the country.
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