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Northeast Nigeria Aid Suspension Looms as WFP Depletes Stocks

Without an urgent $130 million infusion, more than 1.3 million people will lose food and nutrition assistance at the end of July

A Fulani woman empties water from a bowl outside her house in Konduga, northeast Nigeria, Wednesday, July 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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Overview

  • WFP has exhausted its emergency food and nutrition supplies in Borno and Yobe states and will halt all distributions by month’s end without new funding
  • Over 150 nutrition clinics supported by WFP are set to close, cutting off treatment for more than 300,000 children under two
  • The agency urgently needs $130 million to prevent a pipeline break and sustain relief operations through the end of 2025
  • Nearly 31 million Nigerians are now facing acute hunger, the largest figure recorded and up from earlier this year
  • Escalating violence by extremist groups has driven some 2.3 million people from their homes across the Lake Chad Basin, a crisis set to worsen without continued aid