Source: US Agency for International Development
Country: Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, United States of America
Highlights
- FEWS NET reports critical levels of food insecurity and acute malnutrition in Borno State, Nigeria
- Approximately 257,000 people need humanitarian assistance in Chad’s Lac Region
- State/PRM announces $27 million to support humanitarian assistance in the Lake Chad Basin
Key Developments
- In June, the Government of Nigeria (GoN) declared a nutritional emergency in Borno State and released an emergency response plan to address acute malnutrition and deteriorating food security. In early July, the USAID-funded Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) and other food security actors released a joint alert that Famine—IPC 5—levels of food insecurity may be occurring in some areas of the state.
- The Food Security and Nutrition Working Group (FSNWG) reported that FSNWG partners plan to provide food security interventions to more than 2.2 million people in northeastern Nigeria during the July-to-October lean season.
- During a visit to the Lake Chad Basin in mid-July, State/PRM Assistant Secretary (A/S) Anne Richard announced an additional $27 million to support humanitarian response efforts in the region.
- In July, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that approximately 257,000 people were in need of humanitarian assistance in Chad’s Lac Region. The UN agency requested $16 million to support humanitarian interventions in the region during the next three months.
- The Niger UN Humanitarian Country Team has allocated $1 million from the African Development Bank to support health care services and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions in Niger’s Diffa Region, following the displacement of approximately 70,000 people in Bosso Department in late May and early June. The UN is also preparing an appeal for additional rapid response funding from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to meet other urgent humanitarian needs in the region.
- Following an attack by armed actors on a UN convoy delivering humanitarian assistance in Borno on July 29, the UN temporarily suspended relief operations outside of Borno’s Maiduguri local government area (LGA) until security improves.