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U.S. Approves $32.5 Million to Address Nigeria’s Hunger Emergency

The move offers limited relief in a funding crisis that has shuttered nutrition centers.

A beneficiary cross a drain after receiving food aid, following the exit of USAID, at a World Food Programme distribution centre in Dikwa, Borno State, Nigeria, August 27, 2025. REUTERS/Sodiq Adelakun.
FILE - A malnourished child receives treatment at the Intersos facility, an Italian humanitarian organization, the only remaining facility providing in-patient services for malnutrition in Maiduguri, northeastern, Nigeria, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, file)
Camp workers offload sorghum at open field as beneficiaries from different Internally Displaced Persons camps wait to receive support following the exit of USAID, at a World Food Programme distribution centre in Dikwa, Borno State, Nigeria, August 27, 2025. REUTERS/Sodiq Adelakun.
A woman walk past the closed Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) Headquarters in Dikwa, following the exit of USAID, in Dikwa, Borno State, Nigeria, August 27, 2025. REUTERS/Sodiq Adelakun.

Overview

  • The U.S. mission to Nigeria said the funding will provide food assistance and nutrition support to internally displaced people in conflict‑affected areas in the northeast and northwest.
  • The package targets 764,205 people, with electronic food vouchers and complementary nutrition top‑ups for 41,569 pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls and 43,235 children.
  • The World Food Programme suspended food and nutrition assistance across West and Central Africa in July due to funding cuts, with stocks projected to run out around September for many countries.
  • In Nigeria, the WFP reports 150 nutrition centers in the northeast closed during the lean season, as 31 million people face shortages nationwide and 2.3 million are displaced by the insurgency.
  • The decision follows a U.S. funding freeze ordered by President Donald Trump in January, and the U.N. has cut this year’s Nigeria appeal to about $300 million from $910 million with severe gaps, including 600,000 children at risk of mortality.