Mauritanian refugees will stay in the camp as long as the situation has not stabilised in Mali. The humanitarian community, with the support of donors such as E Photo: Photo courtesy EU Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection.
Food crisis in West Africa
The situation in West Africa is deteriorating fast
Christian Aid is escalating its appeal for funds to tackle the food crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa amid reports that the situation is deteriorating fast.
The World Food Programme has warned that without new funding, food aid for nearly 250,000 Malian refugees in Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Niger and other neigh-bouring states will run out in weeks.
Nick Guttman, Christian Aid’s head of humanitarian operations, said: ‘There are nineteen million people across the Sahel who are in dire need. More than a million children are at risk of severe acute malnutrition.
‘Increasing numbers are entirely dependent on food aid for survival, particularly refugees who have fled from the conflict in Mali to neighbouring states, and people displaced within Mali itself.’
Because last year’s harvest was so poor, due to the drought, even those who are not affected by conflict have nothing to tide them over.
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