More than 25,000 people will face starvation in conflict-plagued parts of West Africa next year, a United Nations official warned Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. Populations in Nigeria, Mali and Burkina Faso will be in phase five catastrophic hunger by June driven largely by violence as well as economic impacts from the fallout of COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine, said the United Nations
Federico Doehnert of the World Food Program said violence and the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine are largely driving the threat to people in Nigeria, Mali and Burkina Faso.
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Source: Nigerian Tribune
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