The United States has approved $32.5 million in humanitarian aid for Nigeria to tackle worsening hunger and malnutrition a rare intervention since President Donald Trump suspended most assistance through USAID.
According to the U.S. Mission to Nigeria, the funds will provide emergency food and nutrition support for displaced persons in confl+ct-hit areas.
Humanitarian groups warn that insecurity and dwindling international funding have plunged northern Nigeria into “an unprecedented hunger cris+s.” In July, WFP regional director Margot van der Velden warned that over 1.3 million people could be left without food, while 150 nutrition clinics in Borno r+sk closure.
The WFP had earlier suspended food aid across cr+sis hit West and Central Africa due to global funding cuts, with food stocks projected to run out by September.
The U.S. Mission said the new contribution will benefit 764,205 people in Nigeria’s northeast and northwest, including “complementary nutrition top-ups for 41,569 pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls and 43,235 children through electronic food vouchers.”
Nigeria continues to face violent attacks on farming communities in the northwest and north-central regions, alongside a decade-long insurgency in the northeast that has displaced over 2 million and claimed more than 35,000 lives.
