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Inspire Nigerian Youths for Peace and Empowerment
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The scorecard released on Thursday, January 30, by Africa Health, Human and Social Development Information Service (Afri-Dev.Info) and Africa Coalition on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, ahead of the African Union Summit/Assembly of Heads of State with Agriculture and Food Security theme also shows that Nigeria, with 33 points out of 100, is placed a distant 86th country globally, and 14th in Africa on the global food security index
Although the food security situation is worst in the Horn of Africa/East Africa which has four out of the five African countries with the most number of people affected by hunger/under-nourishment, Nigeria tops list of 11 ECOWAS countries with at least one million people affected by hunger/under-nourishment.
Nigeria with 12.1 million people in a state of hunger tops list of 11 Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) countries which have over one million people each affected by hunger and under-nourishment, the latest 2014 Africa Multiple Indicator Scorecard on Hunger and Food Security has revealed.
A scorecard on hunger in Africa recently revealed that Nigeria has the highest number of hungry people in West Africa, as about 12.1 million people are hungry or under nourished in the country.
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