Torrential rains and floods this year have destroyed more than 1.5 million hectares of cropland.
to feed their families. When a dam collapsed in September, flooding the state capital and surrounding farmland, many people ran out of options.
The flood washed that all away, driving her, her husband and their six children to a bare room at Gubio, an unfinished housing project about 96 km northwest of Maiduguri that has become a displacement camp. The cost of staples like rice and beans has doubled, tripled or even quadrupled in a year, depending on location – an unmanageable shock for millions of poor families.
“The food crisis in Nigeria is immense because what we are seeing is a crisis within a crisis within a crisis,” said Trust Mlambo, head of programme for the northeast at the World Food Programme, in an interview with Reuters in Maiduguri.
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