The phenomenon may worsen in these countries, as well as in Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria, in the period between harvests, from June to August.
Around 7.5 million people in the central Sahel – Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger – live in a situation of “severe food insecurity”, the North American NGO International Rescue Committee (IRC) warned this Monday.
For the international human rights organization, “the magnitude of serious food insecurity and associated malnutrition continues to intensify in the region”
“In the central Sahel alone, 7.5 million people are affected, up from 5.4 million last year,” the IRC said in a statement.
Around 70 million people live in these three countries..
The phenomenon can worsen in these countries, as well as in Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria, between harvests, from June to August.
“In West and Central Africa, Food insecurity has worsened progressively in the last five years,” analyzed the regional vice president of the IRC for West Africa, cited in the same note.
“You climate crises”They have exacerbated” this phenomenon, as well as “malnutrition and insecurity,” and “are pushing young people to migrate within and outside the region,” Modou Diaw added.
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are on the UN list of 46 least developed countries.
Each of them is ruled by an army that came to power through a coup d’état, and each of them is the victim of deadly violence from terrorist groups.
After ensuring the departure of the French army from their territory, the three countries joined together to form the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) and found new partners, including Russia.
On Saturday, Russian instructors delivered essential goods to Niger.
Source: Observadora
