Thousands of people in Nigerias strife-torn northeast are facing the risk of catastrophic food shortages for the first time in nearly a decade, as aid cuts deepen malnutrition across the region, the U.N. World Food Programme WFP warned on Friday.
Around 15,000 people are at risk in Borno state, the agency said, an area already struggling with years of militant unrest.
Across West and Central Africa, 55 million people are facing severe food shortages, with more than three quarters of the people affected in Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Niger, it added.
