The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said that it needs over $182
million to sustain aid in Nigeria’s North-east for the next six
months.
The UN agency disclosed this in a statement by its national
communications officer, Kelechi Onyemaobi. WFP said they are concerned by
conflict-affected communities in northeast Nigeria (Borno, Adamawa and
Yobe) who already face extreme hunger and who are especially
vulnerable.
“They are on life-support and need assistance to survive,” the WFP
senior spokesperson, Elisabeth Byrs, was quoted in the statement as
saying.
The WFP said, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), “this region remains one of several most
severe humanitarian crises in the world, with some 7.9 million people,
especially women and children in need of urgent assistance today”.
It said it plans to help a total of 1.8 million people in the region.
Mrs Byrs said, “That’s why WFP is distributing now two months’ worth
of food and nutrition assistance in IDP camps and among vulnerable
communities to ensure that people have enough food while they are on
full or partial lockdown.”
