US partners with federal government to fight hunger and malnutrition

The US-backed Operation End Starvation (OES) is seeking a direct partnership with Nigeria’s federal government to expand interventions against acute child malnutrition. CEO Williams Holdsworth Moore said the organisation plans to channel more than $1 billion annually and aims to demonstrate large-scale investment across Sub-Saharan Africa within the next two years. Health Minister Muhammad Ali Pate pointed to the National Community Food Bank Programme, launched across Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones in partnership with First Lady Oluremi Tinubu’s office, and cited 6.4 million cases of acute child malnutrition in the country.