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[QUOTE="Munyaradzi Mafaro, post: 73122, member: 636"]
Nigeria confronts a humanitarian catastrophe as the World Food Program projects nearly 35 million citizens will struggle with acute hunger through next year amid collapsing foreign assistance and escalating jihadist violence. Operations supporting almost one million residents face imminent shutdown after December when resources expire, forcing cancellations of nutrition interventions that have previously sustained over 300,000 malnourished children since July.

Borno state bears particularly devastating conditions where approximately 15,000 inhabitants teeter toward starvation while armed groups affiliated with al-Qaeda and Islamic State intensify rural massacres and school kidnappings. The agency's country director, David Stevenson, warned that insurgent expansion threatens regional stability as farming populations endure relentless assaults and economic collapse.

Donor retrenchment from Washington and European capitals has eviscerated relief capacity during the nation's worst financial crisis in generations, leaving essential supplies inaccessible to impoverished families across northern territories where child malnutrition reaches critical thresholds.
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