ABUJA, Nigeria – The United States has announced a £25 million ($32.5m) humanitarian package to address Nigeria’s worsening hunger crisis, targeting more than 764,000 people across the conflict-hit North-East and North-West.
In a statement from the US Mission in Abuja on Wednesday, officials confirmed the funds will be channelled through the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to deliver food assistance and nutritional support.
The aid will provide electronic food vouchers for displaced families, alongside nutritional supplements for over 41,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women and 43,000 children at risk of acute malnutrition.
“This is life-saving assistance for people facing unimaginable hardship,” a US Mission spokesperson said.
The WFP welcomed the intervention, warning that children are the hardest hit: “Families are going days without food. This funding will help us avert a worsening catastrophe.”
Nigeria’s humanitarian crisis has escalated amid insurgency and banditry, with the UN repeatedly warning the country faces “catastrophic” hunger without urgent global intervention.
