UN relief coordinator warns over humanitarian crisis in Africa's drought-hit...
Representatives from UNHCR guide humanitarian chief Valerie Amos (centre) through a refugee camp in Mentanao, Burkina Faso. Photo: OCHA/David Gough24 May 2012 The United Nations top relief official...
View ArticleEarly Action can Avert Sahel Food and Nutrition Crisis – UN
Wednesday, 25 January 2012, 11:34 am Press Release: OHCHR 24 January 2012 GENEVA – “Drought, poor harvests and rising food prices have left the Sahel region of West-Central Africa on the brink of a...
View ArticleImmediate action needed to prevent Sahel famine, says WFP
Meeting of UN agencies and government officials at World Food Programme in Rome discusses joint response to combat hunger in the Sahel region The head of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation,...
View ArticleUN and partners seek $1.6 billion for crisis-hit Sahel region in West Africa
Cheicknè Bah, a farmer in Yelimané in the Kayes region of south western Mali, with his sorghum crop that has been damaged by the drought. Photo: WFP/Daouda Guirou19 June 2012 The United Nations and...
View ArticleIn pictures: West African food crisis
Aid agencies have warned that the drought in West Africa's Sahel region could become a humanitarian disaster. Malnutrition and illnesses are putting at risk the lives of thousands of people in Chad,...
View ArticleHelping Africa's Sahel Region Before Crisis Hits: Take Part In Our Online...
When it comes to aid for Africa, there's a longstanding modus operandi known as the CNN effect: The public isn't spurred to take action until it's hit with the prototypical images of sizzled farmland...
View ArticleOxfam Ambassador Baaba Maal aims to raise funds for Sahel food crisis
Published: 30 July 2012 Senegalese singer Baaba Maal today launched a personal appeal to raise $5,000 for communities facing a food crisis in the Sahel region of West and Central Africa. Baaba Maal...
View ArticleAgencies Assess Humanitarian Needs in the Sahel
DAKAR — Millions of people across West Africa’s Sahel region face a double crisis, as fallout from the northern Mali conflict hits areas already facing severe food shortages. Gathering Saturday in the...
View ArticleMali crisis raises West Africa famine threat
The threat of famine across West Africa is getting worse with the political crisis in Mali, experts and aid workers said Thursday, urging the Canadian government to co-ordinate a response from other...
View Article13m threatened by food crisis - Oxfam
Dakar - About 13 million people living in west and central Africa face a major food crisis unless immediate action is taken, humanitarian group Oxfam warned Thursday. A dangerous combination of...
View ArticleMali refugee overspill worsens food crisis
Niamey - Refugees fleeing the confict in northern Mali are placing even greater strain on the Sahel region, already battling a severe food crisis after failed harvests last year that have left...
View ArticleMali refugee overspill worsens Sahel food crisis
Refugees fleeing the confict in northern Mali are placing even greater strain on the Sahel region, already battling a severe food crisis after failed harvests last year that have left millions hungry....
View ArticleSahel Drought 2012: One Million Children At Risk Of Starvation
Two-year-old Ouobra Kompalemba, who suffers from severe malnutrition and bronchitis, receives milk through a catheter, on March 19, 2012, at a hospital in Diapaga, eastern Burkina Faso. (RAPHAEL DE...
View ArticleDonors Focus on Sahel Food Crisis
DAKAR - Officials from the European Union, the United States, Japan and other countries are meeting today to mobilize aid for some 18 million people facing severe food shortages in West Africa’s Sahel...
View ArticleWest Africa Food Crisis Threatens Over 18 Million People
Friday, 17 August 2012, 2:32 pm Press Release: Oxfam West Africa Food Crisis Threatens Over 18 Million People Fatimata Sawadogo has just won gold, but there'll be no ceremony, no podium and no medals....
View ArticleWest Africa food crisis matching fund launched by Ottawa
Canadians are being asked to open their wallets and donate to a fund for humanitarian aid in West Africa's Sahel region, where a food crisis is threatening lives, and the federal government will match...
View ArticleBonnie Wright jets to Africa for charity trip
Tweet Harry Potter star Bonnie Wright has jetted off to Senegal to raise awareness of the ongoing food crisis in Africa. The actress landed in...
View ArticleOxfam warns of West Africa drought 'catastrophe'
Urgent action is needed to stop drought in West Africa's Sahel region turning into a humanitarian disaster affecting 13 million people, Oxfam says. The charity says the international...
View ArticleAlmost a billion go hungry worldwide
For the first time in recent history, humanitarian organisations have had to respond to three serious food crises – in West Africa, Yemen and East Africa – in the past 12 months, according to Oxfam....
View ArticleDrought in Sahel Could Become a Catastrophe for 13 Million
Aid agency Oxfam launches $37m emergency appeal to help 1 million of the most vulnerable in West and Central Africa Some 13 million people are at severe risk from a food crisis which is set to...
View ArticleAid group heightens warnings of new Africa famine
An international aid group warned Friday of a growing famine risk in West Africa, amid reports of villagers raiding ant hills to take food from the insects. Adding to an alert already sounded by the...
View ArticleBonnie Wright Speaks Out On Africa Crisis
Tweet Harry Potter star Bonnie Wright has visited Senegal in an attempt to raise awareness of the ongoing food crisis in Africa. The Oxfam ambassador, who is best known for her role as Ginny Weasley...
View ArticleBonnie Wright travels to Senegal to meet families affected by the food...
Last week, British actor Bonnie Wright, best known for her role in the Harry Potter films, travelled to Senegal with Oxfam to draw attention to the growing humanitarian crisis in the country and to...
View ArticleSAHEL: How effective was the food crisis response?
DAKAR, 24 October 2012 (IRIN) - Sahelians are used to living on the edge and doing all they can to overcome adversity. In 2011, the combined shocks of ongoing high food prices, an end to remittances...
View ArticleSAHEL: What went right in the crisis response?
DAKAR, 24 October 2012 (IRIN) - Sahelians are used to living on the edge and doing all they can to overcome adversity. In 2011, the combined shocks of ongoing high food prices, an end to remittances...
View ArticleSAHEL: Food crisis response highs
DAKAR, 24 October 2012 (IRIN) - Sahelians are used to living on the edge and doing all they can to overcome adversity. In 2011, the combined shocks of ongoing high food prices, an end to remittances...
View ArticleSAHEL: Malnourished to remain above one million in 2013
DAKAR, 20 December 2012 (IRIN) - Despite good rains across much of the Sahel this year, 1.4 million children are expected to be malnourished - up from one million in 2013, according to the 2013 Sahel...
View ArticleCall for urgent action in Sahel to prevent humanitarian emergency
Levels of malnutrition in areas of west Africa becoming dangerously high, warns Oxfam, as the NGO launches an emergency appeal • Map of the Sahel food crisis Ahmed Di Ba, a resident of Kaedi, in...
View Article13 million people threatened by food crisis: Oxfam
About 13 million people living in west and central Africa face a major food crisis unless immediate action is taken, humanitarian group Oxfam warned Thursday. A dangerous combination of drought,...
View ArticleSahel food crisis has been made worse by the widespread unrest in Africa
Gaddafi-armed Tuareg rebels in Mali and terrorist attacks in Nigeria are adding to the growing crisis in the Sahel region People take part in an Action Against Hunger dyke-building programme near...
View ArticleDrought returns to West Africa’s Sahel, bringing hunger as crisis looms
DAKAR, Senegal — For the third time in the past decade, drought has returned to the arid, western shoulder of Africa, bringing hunger to millions. Aid agencies are warning that if action is not taken...
View ArticleDrought returns to West Africa's Sahel, bringing hunger as crisis looms
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — For the third time in the past decade, drought has returned to the arid, western shoulder of Africa, bringing hunger to millions. Aid agencies are warning that if action is not...
View ArticleUN Seeks $1.6 Billion For Crisis-Hit Sahel Region
Wednesday, 20 June 2012, 4:17 pm Press Release: United Nations UN And Partners Seek $1.6 Billion For Crisis-Hit Sahel Region In West Africa New York, Jun 19 2012 11:10AM The United Nations and its...
View ArticleTalk point: the Sahel hunger crisis and global food security
A year on from the UN declaration of famine in Somalia, with a hunger summit planned for London this August, and continued unease over high and volatile food prices, we want to know what you think: why...
View ArticleHunger crisis in Sahel: NGOs struggle to raise aid
DAKAR - Aid agencies said Monday they are facing a multi-million dollar funding shortage to deal with a food crisis in the Sahel where people are resorting to increasingly desperate measures to...
View ArticleBurkina Faso: food shortages leave families on the brink of crisis (IFRC -...
(Source: IFRC - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) This plantation of milet was destroyed with the heat, the attacks of worms and crickets. Town of Sebba, Oudalan...
View ArticleBaaba Maal Press Conference in Mauritania
Monday, 5 March 2012, 11:54 am Press Release: SWPR The scale of this crisis is so great that I have to speak out so that the world reacts declares musician Baaba Maal after visiting the south of...
View ArticleIn the Sahel, Resilience Can Save Lives
This blog is part of a series organized by The Huffington Post and the NGO alliance InterAction to call attention to the crisis in the Sahel, a region in sub-Saharan Africa where more than 18 million...
View ArticleFighting Turns Food Crisis Into Humanitarian Catastrophe: What We Can Do
This blog is part of a series organized by The Huffington Post and the NGO alliance InterAction to call attention to the crisis in the Sahel, a region in sub-Saharan Africa where more than 18 million...
View ArticleMillions starving as world responds slowly to disaster
Famine victim … Ouobra Kompalemba, 2, is fed milk through a tube in a Burkina Faso hospital. Photo: AFP THE hunger season has come early to West Africa. It's normal for villagers in the drought-prone...
View ArticleNo 'magic wand' for Sahel as food shortages loom yet again
WFP says 2012's good harvest in Sahel not enough to alleviate deep-rooted poverty, as millions more face hunger this year A well built by Oxfam in Bahr El Ghazal province, Chad. Sahel countries are...
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