A coalition of international Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) has revealed that over 58 million people, including 29 million children, are facing acute food crises across West and Central Africa.
Senegal, Dakar, 16 October – 58 million people1 across West and Central Africa, including nearly 29 million children, are now acutely food insecure and in need of urgent food assistance, says an alliance of leading international NGOs in the region..
More than one-third of children under five in Africa’s Central Sahel – or about four million - are at risk of starvation in coming weeks as the region faces one of the world’s fastest-growing hunger crises, Save the Children said today.
More than one-third of children under five in Central Sahel are at risk of starvation in coming weeks as the region faces the world’s fastest-growing hunger crises.