Absolutely heartbreaking
Seeing this unfold year after year is just devastating. How do we keep failing to protect the most vulnerable?
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.