ABUJA, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- Humanitarian teams are scaling up food and nutrition emergency aid in Nigeria's troubled northeast region through improved coordinated logistics and civil-military coordination efforts, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said here Thursday.
In a statement, the UN agency said humanitarian teams can now access some areas that were previously inaccessible in the troubled Nigerian region.
"Humanitarians have also noticed encouraging signs that the food and nutrition situation in some areas was stabilizing, especially with the support from donors, food and nutrition emergency aid that significantly scaled up since late 2016," the statement said.
According to the UN agency, nearly 2 million people are presently receiving in-kind or cash-based food assistance every month in the country's most volatile region.
It noted nutrition partners have reached nearly 500,000 children, pregnant and lactating women this year through supplementary feeding programs.
UNOCHA said the strategic focus of humanitarian partners is on integrated and coordinated life-saving assistance, strengthened protection of civilians, enhanced humanitarian access, and durable solutions.
Earlier, the UN agency alarmed that Nigeria's humanitarian situation was the most severe in the world.
The crises, which emanated from terror group Boko Haram's attacks, particularly in the country's northeast region, had left over 8.5 million people in dire need of assistance in the worst affected states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe.
The prolonged humanitarian crisis has had a devastating impact on food security and nutrition in Nigeria's northeast.
