The US, by the U.S. Company for Worldwide Improvement (USAID), is offering greater than $6.5 million to the Worldwide Group for Migration (IOM) to handle flood-related humanitarian wants throughout Nigeria. This funding is a part of USAID’s Fiscal 12 months 2024 help and can allow native companions to reply to flooding and different disasters. IOM is allocating $3 million to handle flood-related humanitarian wants throughout the nation.
Flooding has affected over 619,000 individuals in 29 Nigerian states since mid-August, in response to Nigeria’s Nationwide Emergency Administration Company. The floods have claimed 210 lives, displaced almost 228,700 individuals, and broken greater than 84,800 houses.
This response is a component of a bigger humanitarian help effort. In Fiscal 12 months 2024, USAID has offered almost $100 million in beforehand introduced funding to Nigeria to reply to the pressing wants of these impacted by disasters, together with floods.
“The US stays dedicated to supporting the individuals of Nigeria as they face the challenges posed by local weather change and more and more frequent pure disasters. Our enduring partnership is rooted in an extended historical past of delivering humanitarian help throughout the nation,” mentioned USAID Mission Director Melissa Jones.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of U.S. Embassy and Consulate in Nigeria.