Reports

By Sarah Oughton in Burkina Faso Ouilimatou Diko, 21 months old, knows little about the bad rainy season, drought and insect infestations which led to poor harvests in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso where he lives,…

Ouagadougou/Abidjan (ICRC) – Several thousand Malian refugees in Burkina Faso, mainly in Soum and Oudalan provinces, are contending with a difficult humanitarian situation. The Burkinabé Red Cross, with support from the International Committee of the Red Cross…

Ouagadougou / Abidjan (CICR) - Au Burkina Faso, principalement dans les provinces du Soum et de l'Oudalan, plusieurs milliers de réfugiés maliens font face à une situation humanitaire difficile. La Croix-Rouge burkinabè, avec le soutien du Comité…

Highlights Planned scale up from 45% to 100% of the 100,000 Severe Acute Malnutrition cases in 2012 UNICEF’s approach is to accelerate the implementation of the national nutrition plan scale-up (2011-2015), leverage the network of 17,000 community health…

23 March 2012:As a result of recent instability in Mali, thousands of people have fled their homes. As of 7 March 2012, some 82,000 Malians have been internally displaced and more than 90,000 people have sought…

26 mars 2012 – Deux millions de personnes au Burkina Faso ont besoin d'une assistance humanitaire pour faire face à la crise alimentaire qui affecte la région, a prévenu le Bureau des Nations Unies pour la…

Médicos del Mundo expresa su preocupación por la crisis humanitaria que vive el Sahel en donde la inestabilidad política, la crisis económica, la hambruna y la pobreza extrema impiden el acceso a la salud de gran…

KEY DEVELOPMENTS · Between April and June, above-average cereal prices, combined with below-average crop production, are expected to result in increased levels of food insecurity in the Sahel.[1] …

HIGHLIGHTS A new food and nutrition crisis is affecting millions of people across the Sahel Region of western Africa this year, due to a combination of drought, high grain prices, environmental degradation, chronic poverty and under-investment in…

Suite aux affrontements qui ont éclaté au Mali, près de 20 000 personnes se sont réfugiées dans le nord du Burkina Faso. Dans le camp de Mentao, les équipes de Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) distribuent eau…