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25 May 2012 - 4:02pmHumanitarian Chief Valerie Amos wrapped up a four-day visit to Burkina Faso and Senegal calling for strong leadership and comprehensive response plans, as well as generosity from donors, to avoid the food and nutrition crisis in the Sahel region becoming a catastrophe. “The humanitarian situation is... -
25 April 2012 - 12:02pmConflict and displacement in northern Mali are continuing to exacerbate the food and nutrition crisis throughout drought-affected areas of the Sahel region, OCHA has warned. “Across the region, more than 15 million people, including 3.5 million Malians, will be affected by severe food... -
12 April 2012 - 11:56pmUN agencies and NGO partners are seriously concerned about the fate of displaced people in northern Mali. The security situation has deteriorated since a coup in the capital, Bamako, on 22 March and a rebellion in the north nearly two weeks ago. According to the latest report by OCHA’s Regional... -
13 March 2012 - 7:15pmAt 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... -
16 February 2012 - 7:47pmIn the cool, early hours, before the unrelenting sun rises over the Sahara, humanitarian workers leave Niger’s capital, Niamey, and set off for an assessment mission to the border village of Sinegodar, which is close to the Mali-Niger border. The village is a four-hour drive on a bumpy, desert road...
