Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal
High levels of vulnerability persist in the Sahel. For 2016, 23.5 million people are expected to be food insecure in the region. Of them, at least 6 million people will face severe food insecurity and require urgent life-saving assistance. Acute malnutrition will threaten the lives and development of 5.9 million children under ve years of age. Conicts and insecurity caused 4.5 million people to ee from their homes, a three-fold increase in less than two years. Here is how humanitarian teams plan to support the Sahel's most vulnerable
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