Nigeria's presidency says aid agencies overstating northeast hunger

A doctor examines a malnourished baby at the Save the Children stabilisation ward in Maiduguri, Nigeria November 30, 2016. Picture taken November 30, 2016. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria said on Monday that aid agencies, including the United Nations, were exaggerating the levels of hunger in the strife-torn northeast to get more funding from international donors.

In the last few months, Boko Haram insurgents, who have killed 15,000 people and displaced two million since 2009, have been driven back from an area the size of Belgium, revealing thousands of people that aid agencies say are near starvation.