DAKAR—Hundreds of thousands of Nigerians could starve to death in the famine-threatened northeast due to lack of aid funds, the United Nations warned yesterday. It said almost half a million of the region’s most desperate and hungry people could miss out on food aid next month because the World Food Programme (WFP) did not have enough money to feed them.

“We need $250 million to prevent famine in the coming months,” the WFP’s regional director Abdou Dieng told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in Dakar. About 4.7 million people in northeast Nigeria – where the jihadist group Boko Haram has waged an eight-year insurgency – need food aid, a number expected to rise to 5.2 million by August, according to the WFP. Yet a shortfall in funding means the U.N. agency can only provide aid to 1.3 million of those most in need next month, instead of the 1.8 million people it had originally planned to reach, said Dieng. “If we don’t get the funding, hundreds of thousands of people could die of hunger,” he said, adding that hunger levels would increase as the rainy season restricted aid delivery and continuing insecurity limited the population’s ability to farm. Aid agencies say the northeast is on the brink of famine after two years of missed harvests, with a third missed year looking likely. The threat of mass starvation in four countries – Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen – is rising due to drought and conflict, and 20 million people are at risk in what could become the world’s worst famine for decades, the United Nations says. Of the four countries, Nigeria’s humanitarian appeal is the least funded, the U.N.’s Financial Tracking Service (FTS) shows. Nigeria’s aid response plan for 2017 has received $241 million of a requested $1.05 billion to date, of which the WFP’s demand for $300 million to provide life-saving food aid in the northeast has only been a sixth funded. “Nigeria is not a poor country… many donors believe that the government should contribute more resources,” Dieng said. “But amid its recession (its first in 25 years) and falling oil prices, the country needs help now more than ever,” he added. The conflict with Islamist group Boko Haram, which seeks to establish a caliphate in Nigeria’s northeast, began in 2009 and shows no sign of ending. It has killed more than 20,000 people and displaced more than two million. (Reporting By Kieran Guilbert, Editing by Emma Batha. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women’s rights, trafficking, property rights, climate change and resilience. Visit news.trust.org)

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The north and their problem, you allowed the politicians to toy with your lives....


Only pity those children

If only UN made this effort or were this worried when millions of Biafrans children were starving to death, the Igbos wouldn't have been so embittered!
What goes around comes around.

Ewwwwwww. Just like biafran children. May God help the North to fight this bitter karma. Amen

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Karma is truly a b1tch. What goes around, comes back around. Gowon how market? I only pity the children among them.

Nothingners and their problem.
they never seen nothing.

I don't mean to be heartless but I really don't care. When they were busy covering and shielding those boys like Agents of shield they didn't know it has consequences? Its now they'll realize what they've done to themselves.


Let those who used em, come and bail em out now. Mind you this is my opinion, kindly mind your business and pen down urs

The amount of aids fund going to north east is enough to fund new refinery yet they keep on complaining.. their leaders are.....

BoleynDynaSTY:
I don't mean to be heartless but I really don't care.

Give an atom of care for the children. We can't visit the sins of the Father on little kids

Northern Nigeria dragging us backward since 1960

Kathmandu:
Give an atom of care for the children. We can't visit the sins of the Father on little kids

ma'am they should've thought about their kids 1st before standing with those blood tasty devils just to get rid of one man

Northern governors are the worst governors in Nigeria if they can't raise that money for their dying Masses. IBB, Dangote and Abduslam can write it off their books without feeling anything.

What goes around, comes around

They thought they where doing us bt now...look at them

Nigera's philanthropists to the rescue.

Karma
Don't dare karma

You remembered those innocent hungry looking Biafran Children?

There on will b play, compared to what u people will get.

Karma pays back in double.

Afonjas, yours is coming soon

I saw some hungry looking children in OSUN being fed by Nairalnders

That's just a start.

Awolowo Must be punished for his actions

Infact if I reach heaven and sees Awolowo

I will gently turn back.

May his soul be tormented by the spirit of millions of innocent Biafran Children

only two politicians from the north can provide the money but greed and wickedness will not allow them

And we have the richest Nigerians from dat region o. What is 250mill usd compared to 20billion usd dat only one man can easily boast of in dat region?

BoleynDynaSTY:
ma'am they should've thought about their kids 1st before standing with those blood tasty devils just to get rid of one man

The Ship has sailed so let's start building another one.



Take a look at a kid and you will see the innocence oozing out of their faces. Kids don't know which party or President is leading us

O nothingners whyyyyy

Karma is dancing skelewu on their head. The event of 1967 is revisiting the North in 2017. Shame to all the Northern leaders and their cronies down South who assisted them to commit war crime against the innocent biafran children

Children should not pay for unknown sin. Government at various level need to pay urgent attention.

They have been ruling forever and they arr always the worst hit.
It is only the children I pity. God help the young ones

ovadozes:
They have been ruling forever and they arr always the worst hit.
It is only the children I pity. God help the young ones

Is it only North East abi th whole nation?
Lalasticlala must hear this.

Very unfair. Those children did not ask to be born.

ephi123:
Very unfair. Those children did not ask to be born.

Come to daddy

Children are starving to death, and hopeless generator fumed-blocked brain dead nigerianists are writing piece after piece against Biafra.
Channel your attention to a fuc,king horrible humanitarian issue, stop being an online enemy to what is bigger than you.

absoluteSuccess:
Nigera's philanthropists to the rescue.

The annoying part is that it is mainly Christians and Southerners that will try to aid these ingrates who will still turn around and kill them at the slightest opportunity while their wicked northern leaders ignore them and still get revered because of slavish religious beliefs and inclinations.

Kathmandu:
The Ship has sailed so let's start building another one.

Take a look at a kid and you will see the innocence oozing out of their faces. Kids don't know which party or President is leading us

Baby vipers are just as poisonous as their forebears. That ship is very much around and this attitude of easy forgetfulness/acceptance is what makes u and I impervious to the dangerous sting of such seeming innocents until it's too late...

Person wey no knw where rain start to dey beat am...u know the rest

If this was in the South East the rest of Nigeria especially those usual culprits will make it an Igbo problem. Then the stereotypes. Ahh they brought it on themselves. Their elders don't care. It's because Igbo youths don't go to school. They love and worship money. Callous people. Boko Haram adversity is nothing compared to that caused by the civil war yet Igbos were left alone to repair and rebuild even in the face of the mindless oppression and marginalization that followed end of the war. They declared that Igbos don't love themselves. They are disunited. Why cannot the northerners show they can be their brothers keeper. After all among them will be found some of the richest Nigerians, courtesy of the selfish cornering of the country's wealth to themselves.

how I wish shekau rebellion was the killing of their imam, emir and their politicians. but no he was busy killing Christians. the Christians are too tolerance I would have advice that we leave them alone to die. that's what their political elite is using to boost about their population.

build more schools than building more mosque. - Sanusi. and they want to kill him.

if this guys don't build more school and put outside religion northern Nigeria will be worst with what we are seeing in the coming years.

Nigeria’s humanitarian appeal is the least funded, the U.N.’s Financial Tracking Service (FTS) shows. Nigeria’s aid response plan for 2017 has received $241 million of a requested $1.05 billion to date, of which the WFP’s demand for $300 million to provide life-saving food aid in the northeast has only been a sixth funded. “Nigeria is not a poor country… many donors believe that the government should contribute more resources,”

The easiest thing we could do is allow for more food import and send them over their. I dont disagree with their assessment we could handle it ourselves more than the other countries on list. We been getting warning of famine for past year hopefully they are prepared.