The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has said that it will be forced to suspend all emergency food and nutrition aid for 1.3 million people in northeast Nigeria at the end of July.
A Wednesday statement by the UN said the decision was due to critical funding shortfalls, which come at a time of escalating violence and record levels of hunger in the country.
โWFPโs food and nutrition stocks have been completely exhausted. The organisationโs last supplies left warehouses in early July, and life-saving assistance will end after the current round of distributions is completed,โ the statement noted in part. (Channels)
