Nigeria will receive $32.5 million in humanitarian aid from the United States to help address worsening hunger and malnutrition, the U.S. Mission to Nigeria announced.

The funding aims to provide emergency food assistance and nutrition support for people displaced by violence in crisis-affected regions of the country.

Northern Nigeria is facing what aid groups describe as “an unprecedented hunger crisis,” fueled by persistent insecurity and shrinking international funding. The World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that more than 1.3 million people risk going without food, while over 150 nutrition clinics in Borno State are in danger of shutting down.

Earlier this year, the WFP suspended food aid across parts of West and Central Africa due to global funding shortfalls, with supplies projected to be exhausted by September.

According to U.S. officials, the new contribution will benefit more than 764,000 people across Nigeria’s northeast and northwest. This includes electronic food vouchers and special nutrition supplements for 41,569 pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls, as well as 43,235 children.

Nigeria continues to battle violent attacks on farming communities in the northwest and north-central zones, alongside a decade-long insurgency in the northeast that has displaced more than 2 million people and claimed at least 35,000 lives..