Hunger grows in Nigeria as aid cuts reduce food supplies

By Vining Ogu and Ben Ezeamalu

DIKWA, Nigeria (Reuters) -Destitute families displaced by conflict in northeastern Nigeria are finding nutrition centres closed or running low on food as a result of a collapse in aid funding from the United States and other Western countries.

Africa's most populous nation has 31 million people facing food shortages, more than any other country, according to the U.N. The worst crisis is in the northeast, where 2.3 million people have been forced from their homes and farmlands during 15 years of war between Islamist insurgents and the army.

Hadiza Ibrahim has been displaced for 10 years. She and her husband and their eight children are sheltering at a camp in Dikwa, in Borno State, the centre of the conflict. They rely on a local nutrition centre where supp