DROUGHT SITUATION
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19 million people are facing a food and nutrition crisis in West Africa’s Sahel region due to a combination of drought, poor accessibility to food, high grain prices, environmental degradation and displacement due to conflict. From that number, 1.5 million children under the age of five are at risk for acute malnutrition, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
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National government and UN data indicate 8 million people are in immediate need of emergency food assistance.
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Per country: the drought is affecting the following number of people: Mauritania: 700,000; Niger: 6.4 million; Nigeria: 100,000; Chad: 3.6 million; Mali: 4.6 million; Burkina Faso: 2.1 million; Senegal: 739,000. Cameroon, The Gambia and Nigeria are also affected to a lesser degree.