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Over 18 Million People Facing Serious Hunger In West Africa’s Sahel Region

by Delvid Stanley-Coker
May 21, 2022
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Over 18 Million People Facing Serious Hunger In West Africa’s Sahel Region
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The United Nations (UN) is warning of the possibility of severe hunger in the Sahel region in the next three months. About 18 million people will be seriously affected. The UN cited the impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war, the coronavirus pandemic, climate-induced shocks, and rising costs of living.

The hunger phenomena may also cause increased numbers of people to migrate out of the affected areas, the office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Friday.

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The largest number of people are at risk of severe hunger across the region since 2014, and four countries — Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, and Niger — are facing “alarming levels”, with nearly 1.7 million people facing emergency levels of food shortages there, according to the UN agency.

Sections of the Sahel region, a vast territory stretching across the south of the Sahara Desert, have faced their most disastrous levels of agricultural production in more than a decade. Food shortages could worsen as the lean season arrives in late summer, Tomson Phiri, spokesman for the UN’s World Food Programme said.

“The situation is going to get worse before it gets better,” he told reporters in Geneva. “We may see more people trying to make ends meet by migrating: It’s a very, very likely possibility.”

Many people from the Sahel region are among migrants who seek to travel north to Europe in order to enjoy economic opportunity, more stability, and safety.

“A combination of violence, insecurity, deep poverty and record-high food prices are exacerbating malnutrition and driving millions to the fringes of survival,” Martin Griffiths, the head of OCHA, said in a statement.

“The recent spike in food prices driven by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is threatening to turn a food security crisis into a humanitarian disaster,” he said. Those two countries are key producers of wheat, barley, and other agricultural products, and the conflict has almost entirely halted exports through the Black Sea.

OCHA is releasing $30m from its emergency relief fund for the four African countries.

Humanitarian groups earlier this year launched appeals seeking $3.8bn in aid for the region in 2022, but have gotten only 12 percent of funding, OCHA said.

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