Entire region at risk of full-blown crises

THE United Nations’ food aid agency urged donors not to forget the other hard-hit countries in Africa’s Sahel region, saying they face similar hunger crises to the one in neighbouring Niger.

Ahead of the official launch of a revised UN appeal for €65 million for Niger, the World Food Programme (WFP) said that Mali, Mauritania and Burkina Faso are also at risk.

This follows the same lethal combination of drought and crop-devouring locusts.