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New York: An estimated 6.3 million children under five, in six countries in Africa’s Sahel region, will suffer from wasting this year, UN agencies and their partners warned in a publication issued on Wednesday. more
Africa’s Sahel region facing ‘horrendous food crisis’
New York: As the Sahel region “stares down a horrendous food crisis”, the UN emergency food relief chief warned on Wednesday that the number of people on the brink of starvati ...
35.8 million face lean season food crisis in West Africa and Sahel
New York: Growing food insecurity that is already affecting tens of millions of people across West Africa and the Sahel, must not be ignored by the international community, UN humanitaria ...
Violence, COVID-19, contribute to rising humanitarian needs in the Sahel
New York: A surge in armed violence, coupled with the economic and social fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, are contributing to worsening conditions for children in the Central Sahel, t ...
Africa’s Sahel: Act now before the crisis ‘becomes unmanageable’, urges Grandi
New York : The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) is stepping up response in Africa’s Sahel region where escalating violence has forced a rising number of people to flee their homes.
