Tens of millions of people are facing hunger in West Africa’s Sahel region, where conflict, surging prices and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic have spawned the worst food-security crisis in a decade, the Alliance for International Medical Action said.
A small charity broke ground this year on a clinic in northern Burkina Faso to care for thousands of women and children who have fled Islamist insurgents wreaking havoc along the fringes of the Sahara, but when Russia invaded Ukraine in February, global supply chains buckled and the cost of building materials, fuel and food spiked in west Africa.
The charity’s founder, Boukary Ouedraogo, was forced to make a tough decision: He halted construction of the clinic with only the foundations laid.
Similar calls are being made across sub-Saharan Africa, where aid projects are threatened by the fallout from the war in