While Wfp was able to keep hunger at a distance in the north of Nigeria in the first half of 2025, the financing deficits endanger such efforts, with rescue programs that stop at the end of July.
Without immediate funding, millions of vulnerable people will be left without food assistance, as WFP food and nutritional stocks have been completely exhausted, the latest organizations leaving the warehouses in early July.
Rescue aid which should end the current distribution cycle once, millions of vulnerable people will be faced with impossible choices: supporting hunger more and more serious, migrating or even risking possible exploitation by extremist groups in the region.
Children at risk
“Nearly 31 million people in Nigeria are now facing acute hunger, a record number,” said WFP country director David Stevenson, with children who should be among the most affected ends if vital aid.
With more than 150 nutritional clinics supported by PAM in the states of Borno and Yobe which closed if funding is not renewed, more than 300,000 children under two will lose access to potential treatment.
“It’s no longer a humanitarian crisis,” he said. “It is a growing threat to regional stability, because families driven beyond their limits are found nowhere to turn.”
Extremist groups
In the areas affected by conflicts in the North, the climbing of the violence of extremist groups leads to a mass movement, some 2.3 million people in the Lake Chad basin having been forced to flee their homes.
While mass trips already tend resources and push communities by the edge, the lack of emergency food aid is likely to increase recruitment by these groups.
“At the end of emergency aid, many will migrate in search of food and shelter. Others will adopt negative adaptation mechanisms – in particular to potentially reach groups of insurgents – to survive, “said Stevenson.
“Food assistance can often prevent these results,” he added, because PAM is urgently looking for $ 130 million to support food and nutritional operations until the end of the year.
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