United Nations, Safar 15, 1438, Nov 15, 2016, SPA -- A U.N. official said Tuesday that about 14 million people may need humanitarian assistance in the northeast Nigerian stronghold of Boko Haram and tens of thousands of children will be at risk of famine. Nigerian military forces, with support from neighboring nations, have pushed the militant group back to the northeast’s vast Sambisa forest in the last few months, enabling aid workers to access areas previously controlled by the jihadists. That has revealed thousands of people living in famine-like conditions. “Next year 26 million people will be affected by the ongoing crisis and 14 million of these will need international and national humanitarian assistance,” Peter Lundberg, U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Nigeria, told reporters in Abuja. --SPA 21:13 LOCAL TIME 18:13 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w270173