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WFP INSECURITY IN NORTHERN NIGERIA SITUATION REPORT #09, 14 OCTOBER 2015

WFP INSECURITY IN NORTHERN NIGERIA SITUATION REPORT #09, 14 OCTOBER 2015

Highlights

  • WFP reached 210,000 food insecure people in the Lake Chad Basin in August and planned to reach 367,000 in September.
  • On 08 September, WFP signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), who had requested WFP to bolster their capacity to address the food security crisis in the north-east of the country. WFP is leveraging its operational expertise to build national capacity in Nigeria, and has deployed a team to Nigeria to support this partnership, which is currently working from Abuja and will be deployed to Maiduguri.