Lining up, they receive some rice, dried beans and other basic foodstuffs, whose soaring prices have left millions in Nigeria facing a bleak Christmas.It's hard waiting for hours in the blazing sun but she has come to get rice for Christmas and New Year because food prices are too expensive right now, she told AFP.
As well as rice and beans, the food donations, organised by Catholic associations, include tomato concentrate, cooking oil and a 500-naira note ($0.60).
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