Africa’s Sahel Region Facing ‘Horrendous Food Crisis’

By Faro Laz

HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — As the Sahel region “stares down a horrendous food crisis”, the UN emergency food relief chief warned on Wednesday [16 February 2022] that the number of people on the brink of starvation has “increased almost tenfold” over the past three years and “displacement by nearly 400 per cent”.

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Displaced people wait in line for food distribution in Gorom-Gorom, Burkina Faso.
© WFP/Cheick Omar Bandaogo | Displaced people wait in line for food distribution in Gorom-Gorom, Burkina Faso.
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The vast Sahel, which runs nearly the breadth of the continent, south of the Sahara Desert, is experiencing some of its driest conditions in years.

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