Expanding conflict drives record hunger in northern Nigeria: WFP

ABUJA: Hunger across Nigeria’s conflict-hit north is at levels not seen in a decade as violence spreads and aid shrinks, the UN’s World Food Programme warned Thursday, with more than three million people “acutely food insecure.” The country has been battling a jihadist insurgency centered in the northeast since 2009, with a resurgence in violence since 2025. Jihadists have also been expanding into the northwest, which is already facing a separate, overlapping crisis from armed “bandit” gangs.

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