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For the eighth consecutive year, the region faces a record number of people in need of urgent food and nutrition assistance, underscoring the severity of the crisis. This alarming trend demands immediate, coordinated, and sustained action. Governments, donors, and national and international organisations must intensify their collaboration to address the growing vulnerability of affected populations. A unified approach, through the coordinated implementation of multisectoral and integrated interventions, is essential to safeguard the food and nutritional security of the most vulnerable communities.
Projections for June to August 2025 indicate that 52 million people could face acute food insecurity if appropriate measures are not taken.
The latest Cadre Harmonisé (CH) analysis once again reveals a significant deterioration in food and nutrition security in the Sahel and West and Central Africa. The analysis for the current period (March–May 2025) covers 11 countries, including Benin, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Nigeria, the Central African Republic, Sierra Leone, Chad, and Togo. For Senegal and Cameroon, the assessment focused on updating the projections made during the November 2024 cycle.
In Mali and Niger, the results of the November 2024 cycle were reconsidered for this current cycle. Burkina Faso did not conduct analyses for the last two cycles (November 2024 and March 2025). Projections for the June-August 2025 period provide an overview of the food and nutrition security situation in the Sahel and West and Central Africa.
During the lean season (June-August 2025), 52 million people, nearly 12% of the analysed population, are expected to face food and nutrition insecurity (CH Phase 3 or worse). These figures represent another increase in the number of people urgently needing food and nutrition assistance compared to the same period in 2024. This calls for a significant scale-up in aid to protect lives and livelihoods of vulnerable households and reduce the risk of catastrophic food insecurity