Facing aid cuts, World Food Programme warns of "hunger crisis" in Nigeria

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Facing aid cuts, World Food Programme warns of "hunger crisis" in Nigeria  As humanitarian aid funding has been slashed across the world, and in particularly in the US, the UN food agency warned that it would have to shut down several regional programmes in Nigeria and West Africa due to a lack of financial resources.  READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/07/25/facing-aid-cuts-world-food-programme-warns-of-hunger-crisis-in-nigeria  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:00An unprecedented hunger crisis in Nigeria.

00:05This is the warning that the World Food Programme gave on Wednesday,

00:09saying that nearly 31 million people in Nigeria were facing acute food insecurity,

00:15all while funding for humanitarian aid was shrinking dramatically.

00:21Now the sad part is also that this crisis is not just in Nigeria.

00:26Across West and Central Africa, WFP is facing critical funding shortfalls

00:31that are forcing us to reduce and suspend many operations

00:35in some of the most fragile contexts in the continent.

00:39WFP in the region has dropped by 60% compared to last year.

00:46And now we are reaching only 5 million people,

00:48with Mali and Niger suffering cuts of over 80%.

00:53Faced with substantial funding cuts from August onwards,

00:57the UN Food Agency has announced that it will have to suspend humanitarian aid

01:01for populations in areas devastated by conflict.

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