Au Tchad, environ 2 millions de personnes sont en insécurité alimentaire, dont 400 000 personnes sous la forme sévère dans les huit régions de la bande sahélienne.
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Au Tchad, environ 2 millions de personnes sont en insécurité alimentaire, dont 400 000 personnes sous la forme sévère dans les huit régions de la bande sahélienne.
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Extreme poverty, fast-growing populations, climate change, recurrent food and nutrition crises and insecurity are building up, threatening the lives of communities already living on the brink of crisis.
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The regions most affected by Boko Haram - Logone et Chari, Mayo Sava and Mayo Tsanaga - have seen a 400 percent increase in the number of severely food insecure people, from 53,000 to over 200,000 in six months.
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In 2016, some 23.5 million people – almost one in six - will not have enough to eat, of whom at least 6 million will require emergency food assistance. Acute malnutrition will threaten the lives of 5.9 million children under-five.
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“Today’s partnership will deepen our understanding of what drives hazards to become disasters, and who is least equipped to deal with the impact of such shocks," said UNASG for Sahel.
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9.8 million people in the Sahel are estimated to be food insecure, with at least 2.6 million having crossed the emergency threshold. Malnutrition, and epidemics, conflict, and disaster related needs continue at high levels.
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Nearly five million more people have joined the ranks of the food-insecure since the beginning of the year, bringing the estimated total in need of food aid to 24.7 million - more than double the number in 2013.
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A new report offers a snapshot of the scope and breadth of the humanitarian footprint in the Sahel and highlights some of the main challenges faced by aid organisations and how they adapted to them.
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Urgent funding is needed to help vulnerable communities prepare a successful agricultural season. Without timely assistance, thousands of families will fall back into crisis, says the UN Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sahel.
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The agricultural production of the poorest households in 2013 covered their nutritional needs only until March 2014. They now depend entirely on markets to access food.
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The United Nations and humanitarian partners seek $2 billion to assist more than 20 million people at risk of food insecurity in nine countries in Africa's Sahel region.
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Harsher droughts and rising numbers of conflicts with farmers are threatening the future of pastoralism in the Sahel, but experts say that integrating crop and livestock systems can help sustain the livelihoods of herders and farmers.
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The U.N. Security Council has asked the world body to draw up a plan that examines the humanitarian, political, security and developmental issues affecting the region.
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The food security situation in northern Mali, northern Nigeria and neighbouring countries, where coarse grain prices continue to increase, is of particular concern.
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Humanitarian actors in the Sahel revised their request to $1.7 billion up from $1.6 billion to respond to the continued needs this year in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, The Gambia and Cameroon.
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Despite better rains and harvest projections for 2013, over 11 million people are affected by food insecurity. The humanitarian appeal is only 36 per cent funded.
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Evaluating the response to the 2012 food crisis, Oxfam says the aid community needs to fundamentally change the way it deals with food crises in the region and help communities to better prepare for recurring emergencies.
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Of the US$1.6 billion requested in humanitarian funding for this year, only US$180 million has been received and 10.3 million people remain food insecure.
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UN is now able to start again sending supplies northward towards Timbuktu, looking for ways to reach people in need throughout the country.
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Despite good harvest in 2012, 10.3 million people still food insecure across the Sahel region; $1.66 billion required to respond to immediate needs, kick-start resilience building and respond to Mali crisis