The Group of 7 (G7) through the United Kingdom (UK), has brokered the provision of humanitarian assistance for the combating of hunger in the northeast to the tune of £276 million.
The United Kingdom says the support will ensure people in crisis-ridden areas will have access to food, clean water and sanitation and that children have access to lifesaving malnutrition treatment.
The amount given to Nigeria’s Northeast was part of a global £5 billion aid to 42 countries who were one step from famine or catastrophe.
The G7 agreed to give £1 billion to three countries at greatest risk, namely: Yemen (£578m), South Sudan (£246m) and Nigeria (£276m).
The Nigeria Policy and Communications Manager, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, British High Commission, Abuja, Elva Lynch-Bathgate, disclosed the development in a statement issued in Abuja on Monday, May 10.
Lynch-Bathgate added that the G7 were also looking at helping out other war and famine torn zones like Tigray,…
Source: Linda Ikeji
