The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has issued a warning that a staggering 4.3 million Nigerians residing in the states of Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe are at risk of experiencing dire hunger between June and August in the year 2023.
According to the WFP, this projection was based on the March Cadre Harmonisé, a standardized instrument for the collaborative assessment of acute food and nutrition insecurity in the Sahel and West Africa Region. The organization released this information in a statement over the weekend.
According to the united nations agency, the ongoing conflict has hampered the nutrition status of children on several fronts, with the fact that two million children in the northeast region are expected to suffer from acute hunger.
Furthermore, the united nations agency said, the ongoing conflict has hampered the nutrition status of children on several fronts, with the fact that two million children in the northeast region are expected to suffer from acute hunger.