Nigeria: COVID-19 Threatens to Hit Fragile Northeastern States Hardest - UNDP Studies

[Africa Renewal] The arrival of COVID-19 in Nigeria sparked a cascade of crises, but the pandemic poses its greatest threat in the impoverished, fragile northeast of Africa's largest country, according to a new UNDP assessment. There, Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe states comprise "one of the most pronounced, multi-faceted, and complex humanitarian and development crises known to the international community today," UNDP's 2018 Nigeria Human Development report found--more than two years before the zoonotic pathogen we now know as