Reports

WFP in Western Africa is responding to the impact of the global food crisis in the Sahel region by providing support to governments to enhance their national social protection systems to be more resilient, reactive to…

Dans de nombreux pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest, la pauvreté et l’insécurité alimentaire sont élevées et omniprésentes, et s’entremêlent avec des chocs récurrents. Comme la pandémie de COVID-19 l’a démontré à l’échelle mondiale, les systèmes de protection…

WFP has been involved in efforts to build and strengthen nationally led social protection systems in West Africa to be more comprehensive and inclusive; assisting people with diverse and intersecting vulnerabilities, in order to effectively tackle…

Senegal, Dakar, 16 October – 58 million people1 across West and Central Africa, including nearly 29 million children, are now acutely food insecure and in need of urgent food assistance, says an alliance of leading international…

Since 2018, Burkina Faso has been plagued by violent clashes in the Sahel, which have caused the internal displacement of over 1.5 million people, and has become the epicentre of multiple humanitarian crises. For months, our teams…

On the 30th of September, Burkina Faso was rocked by a new coup d’état only a few months after the overthrow of President Kaboré and the establishment of a civilian-military transitional government. This new putsch, “motivated”,…

FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT Below-average cereal production expected in 2022 due to worsening conflicts Below-average cereal imports forecast in 2021/22 marketing year Prices of coarse grains well above year-earlier levels Acute food insecurity at unprecedented levels for 3.45 million people in…

HIGHLIGHTS According to the revised 2022 Humanitarian Response Plan, the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance increased from 3.5 million to 4.9 million, and the number of children in need increased from 2 to 2.8…

In Numbers 2,154 mt of food distributed USD 7,634,491 cash-based transfers made USD 90.4 million six-month (August 2022-January 2023) net funding requirements 1,142,739 people assisted* in July 2022 Operational Updates Political updates: ECOWAS chairman Umaro Sissoco Embalo traveled to Burkina Faso on…

On 4 October, civil society organizations in the Soum Province issued a communiqué warning of the death of eight children, supposedly due to famine, in Djibo (Soum province, Sahel region). On the same day, SERACOM, a…