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OVER 64,000 PEOPLE REACHED WITH FOOD AND NUTRITION AID IN PULKA

Food Security

Severity score28 / 100 · Moderate

How the score is calculated

The score starts at 8. It adds points from recorded affected, deaths, displaced and casualty counts, plus terms found in the story title, event type or status. For each count, only its highest matching band is used.

Affected people
1–999: +5 · 1,000–9,999: +12 · 10,000–99,999: +20 · 100,000–999,999: +28 · 1 million+: +35
Deaths
1–9: +8 · 10–99: +14 · 100–999: +22 · 1,000+: +30
Displaced people
1–9,999: +6 · 10,000–99,999: +12 · 100,000+: +18
Casualties
100 or more: +8
Story wording
+10 for terms such as catastrophe, famine, war, conflict, major earthquake, mass casualty or critical. Otherwise, +5 for active, ongoing, emergency, outbreak, cyclone or hurricane.

Score bands: Watch 0–24 · Moderate 25–49 · High 50–74 · Critical 75–100. Scores are capped at 100. Missing or unparseable figures add no points.

This is a rule-based WorldsAid triage indicator, not an official or independently validated classification. It does not account for recency or local context, and it can understate events with incomplete reporting. Check the linked sources.

Last verified17 Jun 2021
Date
Status
CLOSED
Aid Zone
AFRICA
Countries
Nigeria
Agency
OCHA

Historical record

Status: CLOSED · Imported 2026-10-07

Closed for this historical import at the site owner’s request; not a new assessment of current conditions.

Permanent node 778 · Historical archive

In brief

  • What happenedAid partners distributed food and condiment rations to some 64,442 people across camps and host communities in Pulka town, in Gwoza local government area of northeastern Borno State, to cover their needs for four weeks.
  • How many affectedAffected persons: 64,000
  • What help is neededResponse priorities should be confirmed in the linked source reports as needs change.

What changed

First retained snapshot

No earlier verified snapshot is present in the recovered dataset. This record remains available as the historical baseline.

Situation

Aid partners distributed food and condiment rations to some 64,442 people across camps and host communities in Pulka town, in Gwoza local government area of northeastern Borno State, to cover their needs for four weeks. Nearly 900 people had arrived in Pulka town between February and April 2021, fleeing different locat

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WorldsAid verification

A WorldsAid editor reviewed this record against 1 attributed source, cleaned feed formatting and checked the crisis, place and reporting date. 1 human-impact figure was separated from the narrative and dated where the source allowed. Earlier observations remain in the evidence history instead of being silently overwritten.

Verified figures

Affected persons
64,000 retained at 2021-06-17

What we knew when

  1. WorldsAid record entered the retained historical dataset.
  2. Last verification represented by this immutable snapshot.

Earlier figures are never replaced by later values; additional observations are retained as new ledger entries.

Provenance

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Cached dataset: worldsai_drup771.sql.gz

Record integrity:
VerifiedSHA-256 42cdad6961796a357a1b0ed65dec96216c466d6eb8131befe9229212337f6627

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