Expanding conflict drives record hunger in northern Nigeria: WFP
ABUJA – Hunger across Nigeria’s conflict-hit north is at levels not seen in a decade as violence spreads and aid shrinks, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) warned yesterday, with more than three million people “acutely food insecure”. The country has been battling a jihadist insurgency centred in the northeast since 2009, with a resurgence... The post Expanding conflict drives record hunger in northern Nigeria: WFP appeared first on New Era .
ABUJA – Hunger across Nigeria’s conflict-hit north is at levels not seen in a decade as violence spreads and aid shrinks, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) warned yesterday, with more than three million people “acutely food insecure”.
The country has been battling a jihadist insurgency centred in the northeast since 2009, with a resurgence in violence since 2025.
Jihadists have also been expanding into the northwest, which is already facing a separate, overlapping crisis from armed “bandit” gangs.
