The world’s rich countries are meeting in Oslo, Norway this week to discuss how to help Nigeria out of an impending food crisis in the north-eastern part of the country.
Northeastern Nigeria has been devastated by Boko Haram attacks which have disrupted the farming cycle thereby causing food shortages.
Guardian UK reports that the food summit comes just days after the world’s first famine in six years was declared in South Sudan.
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It reports further that at the top of the agenda at the summit hosted by the Norwegian, Nigerian and German governments and the UN is understanding why wealthy countries did not react quickly to an international humanitarian appeal for more than 5 million people facing severe food shortages.
Also likely to be discussed is Nigerian government’s ongoing offensive against Boko Haram militants and issues surrounding it.
“It’s a crisis that people have talked about but frankly the level of resource commitment has been nowhere near what it should have been and the situation on the ground is even getting worse,” warned Manuel Fontaine, Unicef’s regional director for the west and central Africa Region.
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“We are talking about 120,000 people at risk of famine some time in the year in northern Nigeria and we don’t think that the resources, globally, have been provided for this crisis. This is what we hope to change in Oslo.”
Meanwhile, Borno state government said on Wednesday, February 22 that it is working on plans to evacuate additional 30, 000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) back to their communities, after they had signified interest to return home.
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