Nigeria faces hunger crisis as food needs rise across west and central Africa, UN says

USAID cuts leave millions hungry in Nigeria

Nigeria is facing “an unprecedented hunger crisis” following cuts to USAID on which humanitarian programs relied. As many as 31 million people face acute food insecurity, “equivalent to the entire population of Texas going hungry,” the UN food agency’s regional head told the Associated Press. Governments and humanitarian organizations across Africa had in recent decades become reliant on US aid to provide food and health care to millions of peop…

Nigeria faces hunger crisis as food needs rise across west and central Africa, UN says

The U.N. food agency’s regional head says Nigeria is facing “an unprecedented hunger crisis,” and the need for food is rising across west and central Africa while funds are shrinking.

WFP threatens to halt emergency food support in Nigeria amid funds shortfall

WFP said it urgently requires $130 million to prevent an imminent pipeline break and sustain food and nutrition operations through the end of 2025.

Nigeria faces aid collapse as hunger and insecurity surge

On 23 July 2025, the World Food Programme (WFP) confirmed it would halt emergency food and nutrition aid in northeastern Nigeria due to severe funding shortages. As a result, final food distributions began earlier this month across Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa. WFP supported 1.3 million people in the first half of 2025. However, without $130 million (approximately R 2.28 billion) in urgent donor support, operations will cease. This development signa…

Nigeria: Amid Record Hunger and Surging Insecurity, Emergency Food Assistance to Stall Entirely

At a time of escalating violence and record levels of hunger in Nigeria, critical funding shortfalls are forcing the UN World Food Program (WFP) to suspend all emergency food and nutrition aid for 1.3 million people in the northeast of the country.