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  • RHC Interview: The Sahel
    18 July 2012 - 12:45pm
    Millions of people face food insecurity in West Africa’s Sahel region. Successive droughts combined with conflict and displacement have pushed people into crisis in nine countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal.  In Niger, the number of...
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  • Sahel: US$1.6 billion needed to provide aid to more than 18 million...
    19 June 2012 - 1:21pm
    The UN and its humanitarian partners today appealed for US$1.6 billion to provide urgent assistance to more than 18 million people affected by the food-and-nutrition crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa. The appeals, which were launched in Geneva, include funding for nine crisis-stricken countries:...
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  • CERF: Fighting food insecurity and malnutrition in Chad
    13 March 2012 - 7:15pm
    At a medical clinic outside Bol, in Chad’s Lac Region, Adama Abdulai’s three-year-old son, Abdou, is being treated for severe acute malnutrition. Abdou weighs about the same as his nine-month-old brother: just 8 kilograms.  Adama, a 30-year-old mother of six, explains that while she was...
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