Overview
- Nearly 35 million people are projected to face severe food insecurity in May–September 2026, the highest level recorded in Nigeria, the World Food Programme said.
- The agency warns it will exhaust emergency food and nutrition funds by December, leaving millions who rely on its support without assistance next year.
- Nearly six million people lack minimum food supplies in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe, and about 15,000 in Borno are projected to face famine-like conditions.
- Violence intensified in 2025 with attacks by JNIM and ISWAP, including the killing of a brigadier-general, alongside widespread gang raids and a spate of mass kidnappings.
- WFP scaled back nutrition programmes in July, affecting more than 300,000 children as malnutrition worsened to critical levels, with steep donor reductions reported from the United States under President Donald Trump and some European nations.