Informes

By Sabine Dolan and Kun Li SAFO SOUMARANA, Niger, 17 August 2005 - Niger's food crisis, with its haunting images of starving children, has caught the attention of the world press. While UNICEF has taken a lead role in providing…

World Vision Niger is focusing on crisis mitigation activities, nutritional support for children under five and food distribution in all ADP (area development programmes) and non-ADP areas in Maradi and Zinder regions. In Tillabery region, an economic recovery programme with micro-credit…

NIAMEY, Aug 17 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan will visit Niger next week to highlight the impact of food shortages affecting millions of people in the West African country, Niger government officials said on Wednesday. The United Nation's emergency…

1. HIGHLIGHTS - Africare has joined the list of WFP's Cooperating Partners, and will handle distributions in the region of Agadez. - WFP has received no new contributions since the 11 August. - The current shortfall of WFP's operation is 32.8 million…

August 17, 2005, Baltimore, MD - Catholic Relief Services is responding to the acute food crisis in Niger with the help of Catholic international relief and development agencies in several European nations. For the past week, CRS has been distributing more…

By Sabine Dolan and Kun Li MARADI, Niger, 17 August 2005 - With their babies on their backs, mothers in the village of Tsaki wait patiently in line to receive food and medical attention - the result of a global…

Westport, CT (August 16, 2005) -- Save the Children continues to expand its emergency response to the food shortage crisis in Niger and Mali, two of Africa's poorest countries. A lethal combination of poor rainfall and locust infestation in West…

International aid and development agency World Vision, in partnership with the World Food Programme has provided vital food supplies to thousands of starving people in the worst hit regions of Niger. The relief charity has supplied cereal, beans and oil to…

ABUJA, Aug 16, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The United Nations World Food Program (UNWFP) is seeking for more contributions for the famine ravaged Niger, a UNWFP official said here Tuesday. Khaled Adly, acting regional director for UNWFP's A West Africa,…

By Brian Padden Dakoro, Niger, 16 August 2005 - Although the president of Niger recently said there is no famine in his country, the U.N. World Food Program sees it differently, estimating that more than 2.5 million Nigerians are…