The United States has approved $32.5 million for Nigeria to address hunger. This is rare since President Donald Trump suspended most aid through the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID.
According to a statement released on Wednesday by the United States mission in Nigeria, the funding will be used to provide IDPS in conflict-affected areas with nutritional and food assistance. Margot van der Velden, the World Food Program's regional director for West Africa, stated in July that northern Nigeria is in the grip of "an unprecedented hunger crisis" that could result in the lack of food for more than 1.3 million people and the closure of 150 nutrition clinics in Borno state. In July, the WFP suspended food assistance across crisis-hit West and Central African countries as a result of U.S. and other global aid cuts that are grinding its operations to a halt.
Famished missions
The World Food Program (WFP) predicts that most of the affected nations' food supplies will run out in September, potentially leaving millions of vulnerable individuals without access to emergency aid. The donation, according to the U.S. mission, would help 764,205 people in the north-east and northwest of Africa's most populous country with food and nutrition. “This includes complementary nutrition top-ups for 41,569 pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls and 43,235 children through electronic food vouchers,” it said.
In recent months, there has been an uptick in attacks on communities in the northwest and north-central regions of Africa´s most populous country, where farmers often clash over limited access to land and water. An attack in north-central Nigeria killed 150 people in June.
According to the United Nations, the country in West Africa is also dealing with an insurgency in its northeast that has killed approximately 35,000 civilians and forced over 2 million others to flee their homes. MailOnline
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