France, July 5 -- The latest food security analysis showed the number of people facing crisis, ​emergency or catastrophic hunger had risen by almost two ​million from previous projections, the World Food Programme (WFP) said ⁠in a statement published Thursday.

The findings underline the deepening humanitarian cost ​of insecurity in Africa's most populous country, where Islamist insurgents in ​the northeast and armed gangs in parts of the north have displaced communities, kept farmers from their fields and restricted aid access.

The crisis is ​worsening during the lean season, when households typically exhaust food ​stocks before the next harvest.

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