Informes

I. Humanitarian HighlightsTargeted free distribution to most vulnerable While initially reluctant to adopt a strategy that may weaken development efforts, the Government of Niger has reviewed its approach to the current crisis. The national body in charge…

I have been very concerned by the terrible food crisis in Niger, and have this week spoken to Jan Egeland, the UN's Emergency Relief Co-ordinator, and Jim Morris of the World Food Programme. The UK will now provide a…

A serious food shortage is affecting more than 3.6 million people in Niger. A double jeopardy of last year's vegetation-devouring locusts and devastating drought has virtually destroyed food production across much of this agricultural country. CRS estimates that as many…

Scarce rains, a poor harvest and locust infestations in 2004 have led to acute malnutrition for approximately 3.5 million persons in vast parts of Niger. Warnings have been issued that some 800,000 children aged five and under are suffering…

Intermón Oxfam ha abierto una línea telefónica para recibir donativos dirigidos a Níger, Malí, Mauritania y Burkina Faso: 902.330.331. Oxfam Internacional ha incrementado de manera significativa en los =FAltimos días sus actividades de ayuda humanitaria en los países afectados por la…

CAFOD sends grant of £100,000 to help Niger and Burkina Faso as food for work programme aims to ease shortages As the international community acknowledges the grave food crisis in Niger and Burkina Faso, CAFOD partners are already helping those…

Le Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM) de l'Onu compte distribuer cette semaine plus de 4.000 tonnes d'aide alimentaire d'urgence dans les zones les plus affectées par la malnutrition au Niger, touché par une grave crise alimentaire, a-t-on appris lundi auprès…

The hunger crisis currently devastating Niger has also had an impact throughout the Sahel region, affecting at least some 2.5 million more people in neighbouring Mali, Burkina Faso and Mauritania, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs…

NZAID, the government's international aid and development agency, will make an immediate contribution of $500,000 to the United Nations' appeal for Niger, Aid Minister Marian Hobbs announced today. "The situation in Niger is dire with almost one third of Niger's 12…

Plan in Niger is increasing its distribution of emergency food supplies to help halt a famine affecting children and their families. For the next three months bags of rice will be distributed throughout 66 villages in the Tillabery area,…