Reports

The international response in Niger continues to gather pace on the ground. We continue to closely monitor the situation, and welcome the announcement of an appeal by the Disasters Emergency Committee to increase the scale of NGO relief operations. DFID…

In Tahoua market, there is no sign that times are hard. Instead, there are piles of red onions, bundles of glistening spinach, and pumpkins sliced into orange shards. There are plastic bags of rice, pasta and manioc flour, and…

ABUJA, Aug 1, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- West Africa's regional bloc ECOWAS on Monday announced the donation of one million US dollars in aid of three member-countries being ravaged by famine arising from last year's drought and locust…

A grandmother: "It was one day at noon; the sky was covered with locust just like clouds. Men, women and children were afraid. Locusts invaded our farms and our houses. People didn't know what to do, or where to…

There is no phase of a large-scale humanitarian operation that could be said to be easy. One of the most demanding, however, is the meticulous planning required to ensure that the distribution of food does not do more harm…

Tearfund partners this week warned that many thousands of families in the south of Niger are teetering on the brink of catastrophe without food aid and sufficient rainfall. As the leading UK charities launched a nationwide appeal for Niger and…

By Kent Page MARADI, Niger, 1 August 2005 - Her face distraught, her gaunt body sweating in the midday heat, Indo arrives at a UNICEF-supported therapeutic feeding centre in this community in southern Niger. Indo is carrying her 21-month old…

L'UNICEF demande à la communauté internationale 14,6 millions de dollars de plus pour sauver les enfants du Niger Paris, le 1er août 2005 - L'UNICEF a lancé vendredi un nouvel appel d'urgence à la communauté internationale pour sauver 32 000 enfants…

D'EXCELLENTES CONDITIONS AGROCLIMATIQUES ATTENUENT PROGRESSIVEMENT LA SITUATION ALIMENTAIRE TENDUE AU SAHEL RESUME La situation alimentaire au Sahel est restée caractérisée par la poursuite de la hausse des prix des céréales locales jusqu'en mi-juillet avec des niveaux exceptionnellement élevés. Toutefois, l'amorce des baisses…

DAKAR, le 1 août (IRIN) - Le Programme alimentaire mondial des Nations unies (PAM) va porter le nombre des bénéficiaires de l'aide alimentaire au Niger à 2,5 millions de personnes, soit plus du double de la cible initialement visée,…