NIGERIA / HUMANITARIAN UPDATE

The World Food Programme (WFP) reported that in three conflict-affected northeastern states of Nigeria the situation for extremely vulnerable families, while still very fragile, has improved in the past six months due to sustained humanitarian assistance. WFP, however, remains concerned about the situation for families in areas that humanitarian assistance remains inaccessible due to insecurity. WFP

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:49
• Production Date: 19 March 2018
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN CRISIS; MALNUTRITION
• Geographic Subject: NIGERIA
• MAMS Id: 2112799
• Parent Id: 2112799
• Alternate Title: unifeed180319a

Description

STORY: NIGERIA / HUMANITARIAN UPDATE
TRT: 2:49
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /HAUSA /NATS

DATELINE: 12-14 MARCH 2018, DIKWA/BOMA/MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA

Shotlist

13 MARCH 2018, DIKWA, NIGERIA

1. Various shots, aerials of camp for displaced
2. Aerial shot, destroyed village
3. Wide shot, helicopter landing

12 MARCH 2018, BAMA, NIGERIA

4. Various shots, destroyed houses

13 MARCH 2018, DIKWA, NIGERIA

5. Pan right, destroyed communication tower
6. Med shot, children walking behind soldier with gun
7. Pan left, camp for displaced
8. Wide shot, garden inside the camp

12 MARCH 2018, BAMA, NIGERIA

9. Various shots, food distribution by the WFP

14 MARCH 2018, MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA

10. Various shots, testing children for malnutrition

13 MARCH 2018, DIKWA, NIGERIA

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Arif Husain, WFP Chief Economist:
“I think we have been successful so far in averting a famine and we need to continue what we are doing because if we stop today, very very quickly we will back at the verge of a famine.”
12. Tracking shot, people inside a camp for displaced
13. Med shot, Fatmata pounding sorghum
14. Close up, sorghum
15. SOUNDBITE (Hausa) Fatmata Ahmad, displaced mother of six:
“If you saw me before you would pity me…but now I have enough to eat and I am looking healthy”
16. Various shots, Fatmata cooking
17. Med shot, family eating

Storyline

With recent attacks on humanitarians, including an attack on a WFP convoy in December 2017, suicide bomb attacks, new threats from mines and improvised exploding devices, access to isolated villages in increasingly dependent on helicopters.

People displaced from attacked villages are now living in camps in towns cutoff by insecure roads. Nigeria military forces guard the camps from attacks, kidnappings and suicide bombings

With no access to their own fields, WFP helps displaced families and host communities access plots of land, irrigation and training. WFP also supplies tools, fuel efficient stoves to reduce risk to women collecting wood, digs wells and helps with livestock.

Despite the security challenges, WFP distributes food like rice, cooking oil, sorghum, salt, and specialized nutritional foods to more than 1.2 million people throughout Boko Haram affected areas of Nigeria. 70% of the food distributed is purchased locally helping Nigerian farmers. It also distributes cash in places where the markets are functioning enabling people to buy a larger variety of fresh foods and helps the local economy.

Children being tested for malnutrition using Middle Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) tests. The green means they are adequately nourished. The red means they are severely malnourished and should be hospitalized.

SOUNDBITE (English) Arif Husain, WFP Chief Economist:
“I think we have been successful so far in averting a famine and we need to continue what we are doing because if we stop today, very very quickly we will back at the verge of a famine.”

The latest data shows that, despite the challenges, efforts of the humanitarian response by WFP, the Nigerian Govt and other organizations, has reduced the risk of famine and overall hunger by 10% since this time last year.

Fatmata Ahmad is a widow with six young children. Her husband was killed by Boko Haram 18 months ago. Here she is pounding sorghum, given to her by the WFP.

SOUNDBITE (Hausa) Fatmata Ahmad, displaced mother of six:
“If you saw me before you would pity me…but now I have enough to eat and I am looking healthy”

As of March this year, 2.3 million people will need some form of food assistance in the three states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe in Nigeria’s northeast. The new Cadre Harmonise analysis estimates that this number will rise to as many as 3 million at the peak of the lean season from June to September. Families will increasingly have difficulties feeding themselves as food stocks from the previous harvest run out.

WFP urgently needs US$ 94 million[3] to continue life-saving food and nutrition assistance to families in the three states until the end of 2018. This includes funding to help pre-position food supplies in remote places which will be cut-off during the rainy season from June through September.