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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Aid Agencies Call for a 'Surge' in Aid Effort to Help 10 Million Facing Hunger in West Africa

Ten leading aid agencies today called for a 'surge' in the humanitarian effort to help 10 million people at risk of acute hunger across the Sahel region of West and Central Africa. The centre of the crisis is Niger, where seven million people, almost half the population, have not enough food. A further two million people in Chad, and hundreds of thousands more in Mali, Mauritania, parts of Burkina Faso and the extreme north of Nigeria are also suffering as a result of the crisis....
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[Source: CARE :: Latest News]

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