{"id":221766,"date":"2026-01-24T11:26:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T09:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/west-africa-nigeria-others-to-get-557m-euros-for-humanitarian-aid\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T11:26:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T09:26:31","slug":"west-africa-nigeria-others-to-get-557m-euros-for-humanitarian-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/west-africa-nigeria-others-to-get-557m-euros-for-humanitarian-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Nigeria, Others to Get 557m Euros for Humanitarian Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\"><em>&#8230;As EU votes \u20ac1.9bn budget for 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Abuja-Nigeria and other African countries will benefit from a \u20ac557m million humanitarian funding package in 2026 after the European Union unveiled an initial \u20ac1.9 billion aid budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The budget identified Nigeria&#8217;s North West, dogged by banditry and kidnapping, among the priority areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">In a statement signed by the European Union yesterday, the bloc said the \u20ac557m million allocation was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601230598.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;As EU votes \u20ac1.9bn budget for 2026 Abuja-Nigeria and other African countries will benefit from a \u20ac557m million humanitarian funding package in 2026 after the European Union unveiled an initial \u20ac1.9 billion aid budget. The budget identified Nigeria&#8217;s North West, dogged by banditry and kidnapping, among the priority areas. Keep up with the latest headlines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":221767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[53488,258,256,7828,12753,6068,257,4687,393,254,4375],"class_list":["post-221766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-557m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aid","tag-euros","tag-humanitarian","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}