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More than three million people in north-east Nigeria need urgent food aid

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Nigeria
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OCHA
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HIGHLIGHTS

• More than three million people in north-east Nigeria will need urgent food assistance from May to Oct.

• The number of IDPs in the north-east has increased by more than 300,000 over the past two months.

• Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, now hosts half a million IDPs.

• IDPs in Adamawa state are keen to return home before the rains.

• Partners are scaling up their operations in the north-east.

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