GNV News – July 27, 2025

On July 23, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced that, due to a severe funding shortfall, it had no choice but to halt all food and nutrition assistance by the end of July for 1.3 million people in northeastern Nigeria. While WFP was able to stave off hunger across northern Nigeria in the first half of 2025, its food and nutrition stocks have been completely depleted, and the last supplies were dispatched from warehouses in early July.

Currently, about 31 million people in Nigeria are facing hunger due to multiple armed conflicts, rising inflation, and the impacts of the climate crisis. Fifty nutrition clinics have been closed, and 300,000 children are at risk of severe malnutrition. Moreover, in conflict-affected areas of the north, escalating violence by extremist groups continues to displace many people. The suspension of food assistance could force people to choose between enduring hunger, migrating, or risking exploitation by extremist groups, further destabilizing the region.