UN: 4.5 million need food assistance in northern Nigeria

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Source: Associated Press

August 23 at 3:59 PM

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations’ World Food Program is warning that the number of people in need of food assistance in northeast Nigeria has risen to 4.5 million — nearly twice as many as in March.

U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Tuesday that a worsening economy could cause this figure to rise by another 1 million as early as next month. The WFP is scaling up its response, aiming to reach 700,000 people with food and cash in the coming months.

Dujarric says the agency still needs $52 million to providing life-saving assistance until the end of the year in the region.

Dujarric also says the World Health Organization is ramping up its response in the same region because more than half of the health facilities in Borno State, the area most severely affected, are not functioning.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/un-45-million-need-food-assistance-in-northern-nigeria/2016/08/23/12fbda22-696c-11e6-91cb-ecb5418830e9_story.html

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1. Boko Haram's terror has destroyed the economy & culture of Borno State

Farmers do not farm, villages are emptied for the comparative safety of the towns, markets do not exist because they attract bombers to the crowds.

Lots of people are going to die in a famine now - many more than in the bombings, and Islamist Terror will be the cause as well.