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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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  • The Sahel: UN agencies call for urgent scale-up of aid
    15 February 2012 - 5:09pm
    Heads of UN agencies, representatives from affected governments and major donors today called for an urgent scale up of humanitarian aid to help millions of people affected by hunger and malnutrition in the Sahel region of West Africa. In a joint statement issued at an emergency meeting at the World Food...
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