The United States government has donated $32.5 million to the World Food Program (WFP) to provide food assistance and nutrition support to internally displaced persons across conflict-affected areas in Nigeria.

With the donation, the WFP will provide food and nutrition assistance to 764,205 beneficiaries, including complementary nutrition top-ups for 41,569 pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls, and 43,235 children through electronic food vouchers across Northeast and Northwest Nigeria.

The announcement was made in a statement posted on the website of the US mission in Nigeria on Wednesday.

The support, according to the Embassy, is targeted at saving lives and alleviating the suffering of vulnerable groups, particularly women and children.

The WFP had recently warned that it may be forced to suspend all emergency food and nutrition assistance for 1.3 million people in Northeast Nigeria by the end of July due to a severe funding shortfall.

WFP’s Regional Director for West and Central Africa, Margot van der Velden, said the agency urgently requires $130 million to continue delivering emergency food and nutrition support over the next six months.

Velden added that while WFP has been able to hold hunger at bay across northern Nigeria in the first half of 2025, funding shortfalls were jeopardizing such efforts.

With life-saving assistance set to end after the current round of distributions is completed, Velden said millions of vulnerable people could face impossible choices.