Aid organisations working to stop the famine in Nigeria will run out of money by June if donors do not give the cash they pledged at a conference in February. The UN said in Nigeria, 4.7 million people, many of them displaced by the conflict with Islamist insurgency Boko Haram, need rations to survive, adding that an estimated 43,800 people already experience famine. According to Lundberg, for Nigeria, aid agencies working on the crisis have so far received only 19 per cent of the money appealed for. Lundberg said the most critical needs for funding are for the World Food Programme, which provides rations to 1.3 million people a month. Earlier in April, Reuters had reported that WFP's funds could run dry within weeks.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 25, 2017 03:22 UTC