Hunger grows in Nigeria as aid cuts reduce food supplies

Beneficiaries from different Internally Displaced Persons camps stand behind a food aid truck waiting to receive support following the exit of USAID, at a World Food Programme distribution centre in Dikwa, Borno State, Nigeria, August 27, 2025. REUTERS/Sodiq Adelakun.

DIKWA, Nigeria (Reuters) -Destitute families displaced by conflict in northeastern Nigeria are finding nutrition centres closed or running low on food as a result of a collapse in aid funding from the United States and other Western countries.

Africa's most populous nation has 31 million people facing food shortages, more than any other country, according to the U.N. The worst crisis is in the northeast, where 2.3 million people have been forced from their homes and farmlands during 15 years of war between Islamist insurgents and the army.