Nigeria's hunger crisis deepens with 33 million at risk, report says


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  • Friday, 01 Nov 2024

FILE PHOTO: Food supplies are pictured before a food aid distribution by volunteers of the Lagos food bank initiative in a community in Oworoshoki, Lagos, Nigeria July 10, 2021. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja/File Photo

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria faces one of its worst hunger crises with more than 30 million people expected to be food insecure next year, a one third jump from this year due to economic hardship, a joint report by the government and United Nations said on Friday.

Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, is grappling with a cost of living crisis that led to deadly protests in August.

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