Sahel Dashboard: Humanitarian Overview (as of 16 October 2024)

Nearly 33 million vulnerable women, children and men in Burkina Faso, Cameroon’s Far North, Mali, Niger, northeastern Nigeria, and Chad need humanitarian assistance and protection services. Among other things, the people in the Sahel suffer from significant food insecurity and concerning nutrition levels, due to violence, climate shocks including severe flooding and increasing prices of local and imported basic products. As of 30 September 2024, 5.7 million people in the region were internally displaced and 2.0 million were refugees. The livelihoods of affected people are threatened, and access to basic services is limited, increasing their vulnerability to disease outbreaks. Thanks to donors, as of 16 October, US$ 2.0 billion had been secured to respond to the humanitarian crises in the region. However, the needs remain significant. The humanitarian response plans require a total of US$ 4.7 billion to support 20.9 million people: so far, only 42 per cent of the total funding requirement has been received.