Rapports

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] NIAMEY, 24 Nov 2005 (IRIN) - Close to two million people in arid Niger could go hungry in 2006 despite a bumper cereal harvest this year, warned the…

With thousands of people on the brink of starvation the crisis in Niger remains one of the most severe in the world today. UK based aid agency Islamic Relief has been working tirelessly in the country to counter the current…

DEC Chief Executive, Brendan Gormley, said: "Our members are working extremely hard throughout the region and are doing everything they can to bring relief to the most vulnerable people but it is a deep rooted and complex crisis. They are the…

NIAMEY - The United Nations World Food Programme warned today that unless the international community renewed its commitment to deal with the consequences of this year's food crisis in Niger -- including prevailing high levels of malnutrition among children --…

By Nick Tattersall DAKAR, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Millions of people in Niger could face severe food shortages again next year if donor countries fail to maintain aid funding as the crisis slips from the international agenda, the United Nations…

By Sarah Crowe MARADI, Niger, 23 November 2005 -- Startling new figures from Niger show that, since the worst of the food crisis in July, more than 12 per cent of the country's children under 5 have been treated for…

Cristina Estrada in Niamey A group of children walk to a river to fill containers with water. They drink thirstily. Elsewhere, children bathe in a pond of stagnant water, while animals drink close by. Women lean in to pull…

Highlights EFSA figures indicate that 3.2 million Nigeriens -- nearly a third of the rural population -- are severely and moderately food insecure, and will need food- and non-food assistance in the short term. The operation needs 11,000 MT of food in…

A complex crisis In August 2004, the UN estimated that over 4.2 million people across the Sahel region of West Africa were facing a severe food crisis. Initial reports attributed the crisis to a bad rainy season in 2003 and the…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] DAKAR, 21 November (IRIN) - This year's food crisis in Niger - which prompted a media blitz of images of skeletal babies - was a mere symptom revealing…