Two to three million people are in danger of starvation as aid agencies appeal for food and the Nigerian president denies the problem

UNICEF is providing grain to some villages that should last until the next harvest

Admission to feeding centers has increased from an average of 1,000 children a week to 1,600 per week

Aid workers complain that it took dramatic television pictures of emaciated children and death from hunger to get relief going

In landlocked country's most heavily affected areas, there is little sign crisis is abating

UN agency is now conducting emergency food airlifts