How can communities build resilience to flooding in northeast Nigeria? With support from Google.org, the IRC has worked together with the International Food Policy Research Institute to pilot the use of early warning systems and anticipatory cash for communities in Adamawa state, Nigeria, who are impacted by increased risks of severe flooding.

After witnessing the death of fifteen relatives and neighbors, Gloria Ibrahim fled with her three small children to the city of Yola where an estimated 400,000 people have sought safety from a violent insurgency in Nigeria's northeast. The International Rescue Committee is leading the humanitarian response for tens of thousands of people. Read Gloria's story. 

The war against Boko Haram, the world's deadliest terror group, has created massive displacement and famine-like conditions for 14.8 million people in northeastern Nigeria. Some 5.1 million people don't have access to sufficient food, and 2.8 million children are severely malnourished. If nothing changes, more than 200 children will die each day. This crisis is man-made, but the solutions are too.

The combination of climate change, insurgency, and conflict over resources in Nigeria has led to extreme hunger and left more than one million children in the country’s northeast severely malnourished. Madiha Raza reports from inside an International Rescue Committee (IRC) stabilization center in Maiduguri, explaining how the IRC is helping children with severe malnutrition stabilize, recover and stay healthy.

New parents Hussaini and Ibrahim* have welcomed their first son, Bello, to their family with help from IRC midwife Murna. Born in Gwoza, northeast Nigeria, baby Bello is starting life in a community that has been deeply affected by the ongoing conflict. With support from the European Union, the IRC provides families with access to reproductive health clinics where IRC midwives assist mothers through pregnancy, birth and beyond.

IRC mobile medical teams bring nutrition screenings and healthcare to communities in northwestern Nigeria where health services have been destroyed by war. The IRC and our partners also help children heal from the trauma of the conflict.