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About 15 million people are at risk as the Sahel region in Western Africa faces severe food shortages. Caritas has launched an appeal and pledged $50,000. Action is needed now. Donate to the Sahel (West Africa) Appeal Five…
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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, decrease in remittances, environmental degradation, displacement of…
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LATEST SITUATION Due to conflict in Mali, 140,000 refugees are now filtering into neighboring countries. Another 100,000 people are thought to be internally displaced. This will almost certainly increase the risk of further food insecurity in the…
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Background In October/November 2011, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) issued an alert in response to the food and nutrition crisis emerging in the Sahel. FAO, in…
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Messages clés Les assistances alimentaires planifiées et en cours d’exécution permettront aux ménages pauvres et très pauvres dans les zones de moyens d’existence de préoccupation (8, 9, 7, 5) de maintenir leur état d’insécurité alimentaire aiguë sous…
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Highlights Planned scale up of the management from 45% to 100% of the 100,000 Severe Acute Malnutrition cases in under 5 children in 2012 UNICEF approach is to accelerate the implementation of the national scaling up nutrition plan…
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ECOWAS and the Republic of Cuba have agreed new measures to revive their collaboration towards the elimination of malaria in West Africa by 2015 through a control and elimination programme. The measures are contained in a framework…
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(New York, 26 April 2012): The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has given some US$82 million in the last six months to help humanitarian organizations in the Sahel scale up assistance to address…
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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, decrease in remittances, environmental degradation, displacement of…
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Video Un camp de réfugiés maliens, au Burkina Faso. Dans ces abris de fortune, sous un soleil écrasant, des femmes et des enfants qui ont fui leur pays, ravagé par des affrontements qui durent depuis la mi-janvier.…
