Some 55 million people are set to endure “crisis” level hunger this year in Central and West Africa, the World Food Programme (WFP) has warned, as humanitarian aid cuts from the US and other countries take hold.
Four countries – Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, and Niger – account for 77 per cent of that the food insecurity, with some 15,000 people in Nigeria currently at risk of food “catastrophe,” or famine-level hunger, for the first time in nearly a decade.
