UN has issued an alert for North-East Nigeria, tagging it a Red Zone, which is dangerous to its citizens.
The United Nations stated on Wednesday, that it was “ringing the alarm” about the humanitarian situation in conflict-torn northeast Nigeria, where a growing number of people are in need of assistance.
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For 14 years, a violent battle has raged between the army and Islamist groups such as Boko Haram.
More than 40,000 people have been killed, and two million more have been displaced, resulting in one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes of the twenty-first century.
We must act quickly to prevent the situation in northeast Nigeria from worsening, said Matthias Schmale, the UN humanitarian coordinator in Nigeria, at a press conference in Geneva.
He anticipated that six million people will require assistance this year, up from 5.5 million the previous year, while the number of While the number of people suffering from extreme hunger increased from 4.1 million to 4.3 million in Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe states.
More than 500,000 people are at risk of famine due to emergency levels of food insecurity. We’re sounding the alarm, Schmale remarked.
The United Nations’ 2023 humanitarian response plan for northeast Nigeria seeks $1.3 billion but is just 25% financed. The world must not forget about the people of northeast Nigeria, Schmale stated.
The UN World Food Programme’s Nigeria national director, David Stevenson, stated that of the 4.3 million people in need of food assistance in the northeast, WFP was only attempting to reach 1.4 million owing to “hard choices” it was forced to make.
Schmale stated that the number According to Schmale, the number of children under the age of five at risk of life-threatening severe acute malnutrition has more than doubled to 700,000 this year.
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We are really running out of the necessary supplies, said Cristian Munduate, the UNICEF national representative in Nigeria.
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, has taken over from Muhammadu Buhari on May 29 after winning elections in February. We hope that under the new president, we will see renewed momentum to find peace, Schmale added.
