Reports

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…

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…

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…

As the food crisis in Niger threatens to spread to neighbouring Burkina Faso, Mali and Mauritania, millions of people are facing extreme food shortages. In the wake of crop failure and locust attacks, reports of hungry families eating leaves from…

Over four million people are facing starvation across the Sahel region of West Africa. The worst affected countries are Niger, Mali and Mauritania. In Niger around one quarter of the population is affected with 3.5 million people, including almost…

The current world-wide dialogue on the food crisis in Niger has been marked by frequent mis-information and mis-interpretation of the facts on the ground. This may impede delivering the appropriate emergency assistance, and treating the root causes of the…

2005-065 Washington, D.C. - The United States government will provide nearly $7 million dollars in additional emergency food aid to help feed thousands of people in Niger, a senior U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) official announced here Tuesday. This latest announcement…

DAKAR, le 26 juillet (IRIN) - Tandis que les fonds commencent à être versés, les organisations humanitaires internationales se hâtent d'envoyer des aides alimentaires et des équipes médicales au Niger, un pays enclavé d'Afrique de l'Ouest où plus de…

A combination of conflict, drought and the worst locust invasion in years has left many people in West Africa struggling with a severe "hungry season", and WFP desperately short of the funds it needs to feed them. The critical conditions…

Caritas Australia is now accepting donations for the people of Niger in Western Africa who are suffering from severe food shortages. More than three million people in Niger are experiencing starvation as a result of failed crops caused by a…