Nigeria: Boko Haram - 730,000 Battle Hunger in Lake Chad Basin

6 June 2017

No less than 730,000 people including Internally displaced persons, IDPs, are hungry and at risk of starvation as they battle the devastating Boko Haram insurgency among other shocks in the Lake Chad Basin region.

Although the area, bordered by Nigeria, Cameroun, Chad and Niger, has been under siege from insurgency for years, and has benefited from series of interventions, the threat of chronic hunger from famine and food shortages has escalated.

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