Overview
- The new UN plan seeks $516 million to reach 2.5 million people in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe after a sharp drop in available funding.
- WFP says its emergency food and nutrition assistance in the northeast will contract to about 72,000 people next month, down from 1.3 million during last year’s lean season.
- Roughly 3 million children are at risk of severe acute malnutrition nationwide, including about 1 million in the northeast, according to UN officials.
- Escalating attacks displaced about 3.5 million people in recent months and pushed malnutrition to critical levels, with thousands killed in early 2025.
- UN leaders signal a transition toward nationally led responses as international support declines, following 2025 shortfalls that exhausted WFP resources and cut aid to more than 300,000 children.