Rapports

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] SAKABAL, 5 Aug 2005 (IRIN) - Tuareg nomad Amadou Ibrahim stands amid the orange dust, his white robes streaming out behind him, and kicks himself for not having…

Tuesday 2 August Once the distribution was up and running yesterday, it was back on the road south to Maradi, another of our main feeding centres. I drove down with Dr Guy Zimmerman, a Red Cross doctor from Geneva…

NIAMEY, Aug 5 - The first three of nine Red Cross flights carrying urgently needed food aid and equipment began arriving in Niger on Friday. An IL-76 carrying 41 metric tonnes of Unimix (an enriched flour) and oil supplied by…

NEW YORK/NAIROBI - Lack of significant rainfall in the 2004 planting season coupled with a massive infestation of desert locusts has created conditions of acute malnutrition for approximately 3.5 million people, a third of them children, in vast parts…

Vatican City, 5 August 2005 - Fr Pierre Cibambo, the Africa desk officer at the Caritas Internationalis General Secretariat in the Vatican, reports on an increasing humanitarian disaster in Niger where he arrived Wednesday. He says: "Caritas Niger has been…

Cáritas. Madrid, 5 de agosto de 2005.- Con respecto a la situación en Níger y en la zona del Sahel el Secretario general de Cáritas Internacional, el escocés Duncan McLaren pregunta: "=BFCuánta gente debe morir de hambre antes de…

What the Agencies are doing: NIGER Food distribution The immediate focus of the DEC member agencies is on supplying food to keep as many people alive as possible. - Three British Red Cross flights have arrived, carrying food for 23,000 malnourished children…

In only 72 hours the DEC has received over £8 million via phones and online from generous donors throughout the UK for the Niger Crisis Appeal. More funding is urgently needed to ensure charities can expand their emergency work in…

Episcopal Relief and Development is partnering with Lutheran World Relief, through Action by Churches Together International, to provide both short and long-term assistance to help alleviate the food emergency in Niger. A severe food security crisis in some pastoral…

Trócaire is funding vital work in the country of Niger, where severe food shortages have left millions facing hunger. The organisation has raised over €320,000 through its Niger and Africa Emergency Appeal, and is providing assistance to those affected by…