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August 11, 2021
The United Nations, UN has established a task force in collaboration with other aid organizations to address food insecurity in Northern Nigeria.
Spokesman for the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, Stéphane Dujarric, announced this in a briefing to Correspondents at the UN headquarters in New York.
Dujarric was quoted as saying a quick note from our humanitarian colleagues in Nigeria.
He explained that the task force is working with the Government to implement a comprehensive plan to address food security, nutrition, health, protection, and water, sanitation and hygiene.
The statement added the plan needs 250 million dollars and aims to help the hardest-to-reach people to receive the food they need.
The Secretary-General had on Friday said over one billion dollars would be needed to implement the Humanitarian Response Plan in the northern Nigeria. According to him, only one-third of the fund has been raised.
Guterres, who spoke through his Deputy Spokesman, Farhan Haq, said sustained funding would be needed to avert food crisis in the zone.