The US has approved $32.5 million in assistance to Nigeria to help address hunger. In a rare shift in U.S. foreign policy since former President Donald Trump suspended most aid through the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The funding will provide food assistance and nutritional support to internally displaced people in conflict-affected areas, the U.S mission to Nigeria said in a statement on Wednesday.
Insecurity and funding cuts have put northern Nigeria in the grip of βan unprecedented hunger crisisβ that could leave more than 1.3 million people without food and force the closure of 150 nutrition clinics in Borno state.
In July, the WFP suspended food assistance across crisis-hit West and Central African countries as a result of U.S. and other global aid cuts that are grinding its operations to a halt.
Food stocks were projected to end around September for most of the affected countries, leaving millions of vulnerable people potentially without emergency aid.
