The United Nations’ food agency will shut half of its clinics in Nigeria’s conflict-ravaged northeast region this month, as it begins winding down humanitarian support due to aid cuts, Bloomberg news reported yesterday.
The World Food Programme (WFP) said it received no funding to continue food and nutrition support for 1.3 million people, despite an urgent appeal for $130 million to sustain operations through 2025.
Those Programmes will now end in August, and “the immediate and most brutal effect will be on child nutrition,” Chi Lael, head of communications at the WFP, said on Monday. Half of the 300 clinics “we run will be closed this month, cutting off lifesaving treatment for 300,000 children,” she added.