Reports

Ouagadougou - 29 août 2005 - Contexte Le Burkina Faso, à l'instar des autres pays du Sahel, est confronté à des difficultés alimentaires consécutives à l'invasion acridienne et, surtout, à l'arrêt précoce des pluies au cours de la campagne…

SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS A look at the food situation in August shows increasingly limited grain availability and high price levels across the country despite the downswing in prices on most markets around the country in the beginning…

The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and its millions of volunteers are active in over 181 countries. In Brief Emergency Appeal No. 05EA015;…

The current wave of cholera outbreaks started several weeks ago in West Africa. So far, 31 259 cases and 517 deaths have been reported in eight countries (see map below). Seasonal factors, such as the rainy season, along with…

(New York, 25 August): The alarming scope and size of cholera outbreaks in the West African region this summer has prompted the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to organize a regional meeting of United…

By James Knight and Katrina Manson DORI, Burkina Faso, Aug 21, (Reuters) Goring the air with their horns and pawing the earth with their hooves, dozens of bony cattle file into a market in Burkina Faso to be sold…

By Bob Coen NEW YORK, 19 August 2005 - As the disturbing images of starving children in Niger fade from the international media, a similar crisis could be just around the corner for other countries in the Sahel - the…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA)Note: The last fact sheet was dated August 16, 2005. NUMBERS AT A GLANCE SOURCE Affected population – Niger 2,680,000 Government of Niger, August 15, 2005 Affected population – Mali 1,000,000 WFP(1), August…

AFR/1234, DEV/2537 NEW YORK, 17 August (Office of High Representative) -- "Millions of people face the impending crisis of food insecurity in the least developed countries in Africa. Besides Niger, the countries that need urgent international assistance are Burkina Faso, Chad,…

175,000 children under the age of five in Mali and 57,000 vulnerable people in Burkina Faso will receive emergency feeding funded by the Department for International Development. The decision to provide $1.2 million (=A3675,000) to support the relief efforts…