ABUJA, Nigeria ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ warned today that Nigeria¡¯s food security crisis is worsening faster than previously anticipated. Conflict is driving hunger in some northern states, particularly the northeast, to levels not seen in almost a decade.
ABUJA, Nigeria ¡ª The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is sounding the alarm as more than one million people in northeast Nigeria risk being cut off from emergency food and nutrition assistance within weeks unless urgent new funding is received. As a result, and for the first time in Nigeria, Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s assistance will be limited to only 72,000 people.
DAKAR, Senegal ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warns that without urgent resources and action, the most vulnerable people in West and Central Africa are headed for yet another dire year. A staggering 55 million people in the region are expected to endure crisis levels of hunger, or worse, during the June¨CAugust 2026 lean season. Over 13 million children are also expected to suffer from malnutrition in 2026.
DAKAR, Senegal ¨C Amid a deepening hunger crisis across West and Central Africa, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has reached over 3.3 million of the most vulnerable people in West and Central Africa with emergency food and nutrition assistance between June and September 2025, thanks to critical funding from the European Union¡¯s (EU) Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations.
ABUJA, Nigeria ¨C Growing instability across northern Nigeria, including a surge in attacks, is driving hunger to levels never seen before, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today. The warning follows the release of the latest Cadre Harmonis¨¦, a regional food security analysis that classifies the severity of hunger, which found that nearly 35 million people are projected to face severe food insecurity during the 2026 lean season, the highest number recorded in Nigeria.
Conflict and violence are driving extreme hunger in six major crises
ROME ¨C A new joint report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warns that acute food insecurity is deepening in 16 hunger hotspots, which threatens to drive millions more into famine or risk of famine.
ABUJA, Nigeria ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), African Development Bank (AfDB), and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has released a landmark report that sets out a roadmap for revitalising northern Nigeria¡¯s food systems, and identifies key policy, institutional, and investment actions to support agricultural recovery in regions affected by conflict.
ADAMAWA, Nigeria¨C As floodwaters rise across parts of Nigeria, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is expanding its Anticipatory Action (AA) in Adamawa State in an effort to reduce the humanitarian impact of flooding and support early recovery in vulnerable communities.
ABUJA, Nigeria ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes recent contributions from donors since warning that operations would be forced to shut down in July. This includes new funding from the United States of America to support emergency food and nutrition assistance for communities affected by conflict in Northeast Nigeria. The conflict has pushed more than 5 million people into acute hunger, and more than 2.5 million children are malnourished.
DAKAR, Senegal ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) sounded the alarm today as persistent conflict, displacement, economic deterioration, and recurrent extreme weather in West and Central Africa are driving millions of people towards emergency levels of hunger (IPC4).
DAKAR, Senegal ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warns that life-saving food and nutrition assistance in Central Sahel and Nigeria will halt in April 2025 without urgent funding. This warning comes as the lean season - the period between harvests when hunger peaks - is anticipated to arrive earlier than usual this year across the Sahel region. Millions, including refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), still rely on Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s food assistance for survival.
BORNO ¨C?In the wake of the devastating floods that hit Borno State in September 2024, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has contributed US$ 1 million from its Special Relief Fund to support emergency food response for flood-affected communities in Northeastern Nigeria.
DAKAR ¨C Over 40 million* people across West and Central Africa are struggling to feed themselves during the 2024 post-harvest season. This number is set to rise to 52.7 million by mid-2025, including 3.4 million people facing emergency levels of hunger (IPC/CH Phase 4) according to a new Cadre Harmonis¨¦ food security analysis released this month.
ABUJA ¨C A new assessment has found that a staggering 33 million people will face acute food insecurity in Nigeria in 2025, with the number of people facing emergency levels of need projected to almost double.
ROME ¨C As the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) responds to flood emergencies across the globe, the agency is calling for investment and concerted action to prepare vulnerable communities for more frequent extreme climate events that threaten to damage crops, displace communities and disrupt food systems.
ABUJA ¨C?The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is on the ground in Borno State providing emergency food assistance to communities affected by massive flooding that has displaced over 230,000 people in northeast Nigeria. Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s is working to provide hot meals to 50,000 of the worst affected children, women, and men who have lost their homes in what has been described as the worst flooding in northeast Nigeria in 30 years.
ABUJA ¨C?The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a US$ 1 million contribution by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to provide emergency food and nutrition assistance to severely food-insecure people in northwest Nigeria.
DAKAR ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is ramping up its lifesaving food and nutrition assistance programme in West and Central Africa, targeting 7.3 million people during the ongoing June-August lean season ¨C when food stocks run out and hunger peaks. The programme ¨C which kicks off in June ¨C supports national governments¡¯ lean season response plans in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Nigeria.
DAKAR ¨C With a Euro 48.5 million contribution from the European Union (EU) received through its Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO), Â鶹ÊÓƵ was able to respond to the severe food crisis in eight countries of West and Central Africa during the 2023 hunger gap and beyond.
NEW DELHI: The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) facilitated a crucial learning visit for a high-level Nigerian delegation to India. India¡¯s rice fortification journey inspired the delegation of government officials from ministries, health, food security and education departments, food regulatory bodies, and the private sector to advocate for mandatory integration of fortified rice in Nigeria's food-based social safety networks.
DAKAR - As conflicts and rising food prices continue to weaken the food security situation in the Western and Central African region, the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a euros 8.4 million contribution from France aiming to respond to the emergency food and nutrition needs of vulnerable populations in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal.
ABUJA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warns that it may soon be forced to cut food rations to more than half a million women, men and children in north-eastern Nigeria unless urgent funding is secured to continue life-saving operations in crisis-ridden Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states.
DAKAR ¨C Millions of families in West and Central Africa are growing more hungry and desperate by the day as food prices skyrocket ¨C stoking a widening hunger emergency in a region engulfed by conflict and the socioeconomic fallout from COVID-19, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today, noting that immediate action is required to prevent a catastrophe.
ROME ¨C The world has been put on a heightened famine alert with a new report by two United Nations agencies that contains a stark warning; four countries contain areas that could soon slip into famine if conditions there undergo ¡°any further deterioration over the coming months¡±. These are Burkina Faso in West Africa¡¯s Sahel region, northeastern Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen.
KANO ¨C The Nigerian Government and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today launched a cash and food assistance programme in the three urban COVID-19 hotspots of Abuja, Kano and Lagos. The Government has released 2,000 metric tons of food from its Strategic Grain Reserve (valued at US$1 million), while Â鶹ÊÓƵ is releasing US$3 million to provide cash assistance.
