The United Nations has said $396m was urgently needed to rescue a  humanitarian crisis in the North East region of the country.

The UN lamented that humanitarian partners will only reach about 300,000 of the 4.3 million at-risk people in need of food assistance in the North East if nothing was urgently done to address the situation.

In a statement on Thursday, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, after the launch of the Lean Season Food Security and Nutrition Crisis Multi-sector Plan 2023 stated, “To prevent a widespread hunger and malnutrition crisis in north-east Nigeria from turning fully catastrophic $396 million is urgently needed to scale up humanitarian action in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states

SOURCE- PUNCH