Burkina Faso
Deutsche Welthungerhilfe (German Agro Action) is expanding its aid programme in the Sahel region, making half a million Euros more available. The money is among other things earmarked for hungry people in Burkina Faso, where the situation has deteriorated…
Niger + 6 more
Trócaire launches an Africa-wide emergency appeal to raise €3 million to target the many countries on the African continent facing hunger and food insecurity. A number of regions in Africa are experiencing food shortages with various levels of severity and…
Mali
SOMMAIRE ET IMPLICATIONS Les hauteurs de pluies enregistrées cumulées au 10 juillet demeurent dans l'ensemble supérieures aux moyennes interannuelles (1971-2000) et à celles de l'année dernière à la même période. La nouvelle campagne agricole 2005/06 connaît un bon…
Senegal
RÉSUMÉ ET IMPLICATIONS Les cumuls pluviométriques enregistrés au 20 juillet demeurent dans l'ensemble supérieurs aux moyennes interannuelles (1971-2000) et à celles de l'année dernière à la même période. La campagne agricole 2005/06 connaît un bon démarrage à la…
Niger
AA 05 56 Australia will contribute $2 million to help provide emergency food aid to the crisis in Niger, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Bruce Billson, announced today. 'The situation in Niger is desperate and compelling. Australia's contribution…
Niger
Geneva, July 26, 2005 - Last year's poor rains and swarms of locusts saw Niger--one of the world's poorest nations--plunged into crisis, putting nearly 3,5 million people at risk. A prolonged drought only worsened the deep poverty in the…
Niger
Vatican City, 26 July 2005 - Caritas Niger has sounded the alarm on its country's rising food crisis; serious food shortages have left around 3.6 million people vulnerable to malnutrition, starvation, and disease. In 2004, locust invasions, drought, and…
Mali + 1 more
Niger Suffers Worst Food Crisis in 20 Years Children across Niger and North Mali are starving as the world ignores appeals for help. Around 150,000 children will die soon without aid, according to Jan Egeland, head of UN Emergency Relief.…
Niger + 1 more
Les faibles récoltes causées par la sécheresse de 2004 et l'invasion de criquets pèlerins ont engendré une pénurie alimentaire grave dans certains pays d'Afrique, en particulier au Niger dont la population est aujourd'hui menacée de famine. « Le Niger est…
Niger
A Save the Children aid plane will leave Ostend in Belgium on Wednesday, bound for Niger. The flight, funded by the UK Department for International Development, will be carrying 41 tonnes of essential supplies - enough food and equipment…
