UN allocates $20m to ramp up food security in Nigeria
By Cecilia Ologunagba
The United Nations (UN) has disbursed $20 million greenbacks to urgently ramp up the response to the alarming food security and nutrition disaster within the north-east of Nigeria.
UN Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq disclosed this at a recordsdata conference on Tuesday at UN headquarters in Unique York.
“With nine million greenbacks from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) and $11 million from the Nigeria Humanitarian Fund, we are able to enhance the Authorities-led response efforts across Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states.
“Assistance comprises […] willing-to-eat food, get entry to to fine water, properly being care and agriculture enhance,’’ he mentioned.
In line with humanitarian companions, almost 700,000 young of us under five tend to luxuriate in from lifestyles-threatening severe acute malnutrition this 365 days on this discipline and extra than half of a million of us would possibly perhaps per chance per chance merely face emergency ranges of food insecurity all the arrangement during the lean season from June to August.
Haq mentioned that the emergency funding would aid jumpstart the response, but humanitarian companions need extra to halt in vogue hunger and malnutrition.
“The $1.3 billion humanitarian response thought for Nigeria is easiest 26 per cent funded,’’ he mentioned.
Updating journalists on Sudan, the deputy spokesperson mentioned the humanitarian neighborhood persisted to say live saving enhance to the of us.
He mentioned that Tuesday, the Place of work for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) had facilitated the circulate of as a minimum 388 autos carrying lifestyles-saving aid to heaps of parts of the country.
Haq quoting the World Food Programme (WFP) says that the agency has reached extra than a million of us with emergency food aid within the six weeks because it resumed operations in Sudan.
“This comprises reaching extra than 375,000 of us in North, South, East and Central Darfur.
“Of us proceed to bear in mind refuge from the combating in Sudan in neighbouring nations. The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) says that extra than 500,000 of us earn now fled across Sudan’s borders to flee the violence.
“You perhaps can merely earn considered that, the day previous, donors announced extra than 1.5 billion greenbacks in enhance of the humanitarian response in Sudan.
“In the discipline, all the arrangement during the excessive-stage pledging occasion co-hosted by the UN, along side the Governments of Egypt, Germany, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the African Union and the European Union,’’ he mentioned. (NAN
