Basic commodities such as fuel and and that has resulted in shortages at petrol stations and bakeries its also led to an inflation of more than 200 percent making many families many of them who live below the poverty line struggle to get 3 meals a day in the United Nations World Food Program is warning of catastrophic levels of hunger in parts of the. Mali unless aid groups of. Violence and insecurity in central whole region of west africa has pushed millions into acute hunger the number of internally displaced people has risen to nearly 1600000. And arrange already fragile situation. Exacerbating natural disasters to be raging. Theres risks that this region faced former d soviet humanitarian crisis in the years to come if we. Continue to build our response. And Development Assistance the International Red cross says a stable ceasefire is needed in the dawn of hot about so it can help civilians the head of the agency says so far its only been able to provide limited aid there all repor
From there to here and then they pulled up and they gathered along this main avenue behind me is Government House thats the Prime Ministers Office is so they pulled up here thousands gathered in the Late Afternoon through the evening but then several 100 stayed overnight at 4 am about 3 hours ago this emergency decree was issued protest leaders on makes of stage on this avenue just next to me they told the protesters to leave peacefully and they did so but we do know that still dozens of protesters were arrested 3 of the main high profile protest leaders were arrested themselves but you know again when we look now it was very interesting you know weve been here for about a 90 minutes and we 1st came up there are still street sweepers the avenue was blocked off street sweepers cleaning up from all those people here overnight now the avenues open and its almost as normal rush hour here on thursday morning so right now we know dozens of protesters have been arrested and 3 high profile pro
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