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In Numbers
1,515,631 people assisted in September 2024
1,914 mt of food assistance distributed
US$ 8.98 million distributed through cash-based transfers
US$ 227.7 million six-month net funding requirement (October 2024 – March 2025)
Situation and Operational Updates
• Severe flooding swept through several states across Nigeria in September. Flash floods resulting from the collapsed Alau Dam inundated parts of Maiduguri, while other local government areas (LGAs) in Borno, such as Dikwa, Damasak, and Mafa, and parts of Yobe and Adamawa states, were affected by floods caused by heavy rainfall.
• The floods caused significant displacement and damages, worsening the existing vulnerabilities for conflict-affected people. According to the National Emergency Management Agency flood sitrep,1.2 million people were affected across 31 states. In Borno state alone, almost 400,000 people were displaced by the floods into temporary camps. FAO reports that the scale of flood-related crop loss across Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states would have been sufficient to feed 1.4 million people in six months.
• Utilising existing resources, WFP mobilised cooperating partners within 24 hours of the floods to provide hot meals across four temporary camps for flood-affected people. At the peak of the response, WFP reached an average of 77,000 people with hot meals and continued to deliver daily hot meals to 46,000 flood-affected people until the end of September.
• WFP complemented wet feeding with rations of specialized nutritious foods like small quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements to prevent malnutrition for 3,360 children aged 6- 23 months and pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls (PBWG). WFP also supported the management of malnutrition for 1,720 children in the temporary camps.
• As flood waters began to recede, WFP joined the government-led harmonised return package distribution and provided takehome rations of 25kg rice and 10kg pulses to 4,675 households. The Borno State Government provided cash, while UNHCR complimented the return packages with non-food items. WFP remains poised to provide NGN 100,000 cash to 18,000 households as part of the return package. However, due to the extensive damage, WFP, in partnership with FAO and UNDP, is finalising plans to support recovery efforts and help communities rebuild damaged infrastructure and livelihoods.
• In Yobe state, WFP provided agricultural input for flood recessional farming to 51 households to mitigate the losses. In October, WFP will distribute dry-season agricultural inputs planned for 2,000 households in the northeast.