• Contact Us
  • About Us
Thursday, June 8, 2023
  • Login
MetroBusinessNews
  • Home
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • News
  • Companies and Markets
  • Energy
  • Sports
  • Real Estate
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • News
  • Companies and Markets
  • Energy
  • Sports
  • Real Estate
No Result
View All Result
MetroBusinessNews
No Result
View All Result
Home News

Millions risk starvation in Nigeria, Lake Chad region – United Nations

metro by metro
February 22, 2017
in News
0
United Nations

United Nations

0
SHARES
0
VIEWS

More than seven million people risk starvation in Nigeria’s insurgency-hit northeastern region and around Lake Chad, a senior U.N. official said on Wednesday ahead of a new funding appeal.

Famine has been ongoing since last year in parts of Nigeria where the government is fighting a seven-year long Boko Haram insurgency.
An international donor conference in Oslo on Friday will aim to raise a chunk of the $1.5 billion the United Nations says it needs to address deepening food insecurity in the region this year.
“They are living on the edge, barely getting by on one meal a day,” Toby Lanzer, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for the Sahel, told Reuters. “My biggest concern today is starvation.”
Earlier this week the United Nations said 1.4 million children were at risk of “imminent death” in famines in Nigeria, South Sudan, Somalia and Yemen.
Lanzer said he was worried the Boko Haram insurgency would deter farmers from planting their crops after missing the last three planting seasons, and that the number of lives at risk could increase. He also expressed concerns the coming rainy season could harm vulnerable people.
“Hungry people without shelter when it rains die,” he said.
Lanzer said the humanitarian response needed to go beyond food aid and include seeds, tools and fishing nets.
Lanzer said he hoped a total $500 million will have been pledged by the end of February, including this week’s funding round.
Lanzer, who has also worked in South Sudan, Darfur and Chechnya, said it was difficult to estimate how many people would die from hunger in the next few months.
“If we were to lose another planting season, I dread to think how severe the crisis could get,” he said.
Some 10.7 million people in northeastern Nigeria and around Lake Chad — roughly two in every three people — need humanitarian aid, according to the United Nations.
Boko Haram militants have killed about 15,000 people and forced more than 2 million from their homes, and still launch deadly attacks despite having been pushed out of the vast swathes of territory they controlled in 2014.
Lanzer cautioned that failure to address the deteriorating situation could encourage more Africans to try and flee to Europe. (Editing by Richard Lough)
 
 

Read Also

Abiodun  Calls For Improved Service Delivery, Presents Cars To New Perm Secs

Senate Gives Swift Approval To Tinubu’s Request To Appoint 20 Special Advisers

KWSG  Reduces Working Days For Workers To Three Days Per Week

Previous Post

FG to commence issuance of first ever green bond by April

Next Post

South African court blocks govt’s ICC withdrawal bid

Related Posts

Abiodun  Calls For Improved Service Delivery, Presents Cars To New Perm Secs
News

Abiodun  Calls For Improved Service Delivery, Presents Cars To New Perm Secs

June 6, 2023
Senate
News

Senate Gives Swift Approval To Tinubu’s Request To Appoint 20 Special Advisers

June 6, 2023
KWSG  Reduces Working Days For Workers To Three Days Per Week
News

KWSG  Reduces Working Days For Workers To Three Days Per Week

June 5, 2023
India Identifies Cause, People Responsible For Country’s Worst Train Crash In Decades
News

India Identifies Cause, People Responsible For Country’s Worst Train Crash In Decades

June 4, 2023
Next Post

South African court blocks govt's ICC withdrawal bid

Auto Draft

Anger As MD Nigeria Air Confirms Aircraft Used For ‘Unvailing’ Was Chartered Flight From Ethiopian Airlines

June 7, 2023

Trafficking in the Sahel: Gas lighting

June 7, 2023
Subsidy Withdrawal: Abiodun Meets Labour  Leaders, Mulls Palliatives For Workers

Subsidy Withdrawal: Abiodun Meets Labour  Leaders, Mulls Palliatives For Workers

June 7, 2023
ADVERTISEMENT
MetroBusinessNews

© 2022 Metro Business News

Navigate Site

  • Contact Us
  • About Us

Follow Us

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • News
  • Companies and Markets
  • Energy
  • Sports
  • Real Estate

© 2022 Metro Business News

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
Go to mobile version