Rapports

CONTEXTE SOUS-REGIONAL:Lancement de l'appel consolidé (CAP)(1) Le 2 décembre 2005, le Bureau Régional des Nations Unies pour la Coordination des Affaires Humanitaires (OCHA Dakar) a servi de cadre pour le lancement par les Nations Unies, d'un appel…

2005 will go down as a year of struggle, deprivation and death in the Sahel. Television pictures meant the world could no longer ignore Niger's suffering, as food shortages took their toll in a region where poverty exerts an…

I. Highlights Nutritional data. Following the 28 November 2005 press briefing by the Minister of Public Health and Endemic Diseases, concerning the 2005 food crisis, the Minster requested the National Health Information System (SNIS) to compile all malnutrition data from each…

I. Points marquants Recueil de données nutritionnelles -- Suite au point de presse de Monsieur le Ministre de la Santé Publique et de la Lutte contre les Endémies du 28 novembre 2005, relatif à la crise alimentaire au Niger, le…

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. A deadly combination of poor rains and locust invasions…

Zali Adamou is a 90-year-old widow, mother of six and grandmother of thirty. She is a farmer in Tondikiwindi in Niger. When Islamic Relief distributed emergency food aid in her village, Zali spoke to staff about her life and fears…

Abdou Adamou is an 80-year-old farmer from Tondikiwindi in Niger. He has 12 children and 10 grandchildren. He spoke to Islamic Relief after an emergency food distribution in June. "I wake very early, like every Muslim, to pray. After my…

The British Red Cross is pioneering an innovative new cash project in Niger, which is supporting 4,000 families. Eighty-four villages in the district of Tanut, in northeast Niger, are the focus of the project, which is providing £120 per household. Eric…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] DAKAR, 7 December (IRIN) - Three decades of increasingly patchy rains and drought are taking a heavy toll on the people of the Sahel nations, the semi-arid countries…

From October 21 to November 4, the Government of Niger (1) , FAO, and WFP (regional and country offices), CILSS/AGRHYMET, FEWSNet; an observer from the US State Department's bureau for humanitarian affairs carried out a preliminary assessment of food…