<br /> <p>The UN World Food Programme said on March 19</a> that as many as 3 million people were expected to need food aid during the summer months in northeast Nigeria, at the same time roads would become impassable due to expected militant attacks and floods.</p><p>WFP said they were trying to help internally displaced people living in camps in areas surrounded by dangerous roads that put them at risk of running out of food.</p><p>“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,” WFP Chief Economist Arif Husain said.</p><p>WFP said 2.3 million people already were estimated to need some form of food assistance in the states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe, but estimated this would rise to 3 million by the “lean season” in Summer. Credit: UN World Food Programme via Storyful</p><br />
