France, Nov. 25 -- The projection, based on the latest Cadre Harmonise - an analysis of acute food and nutritioninsecurityin the Sahel and West Africa region, is the highest number recorded inNigeriasince monitoring began, the WFP said.

Violence has escalated in 2025, with attacks by insurgents including al-Qaeda affiliate Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), which carried out its first strike inNigerialast month, and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP).

Recent incidents underscore the crisis: ISWAP fighters killed abrigadier-generalin the northeast, while armed bandits abducted more than300 Catholic school studentsin a mass kidnapping days after storming a public school, killing a deputy head teacher and seizing25 school...