Vulnerability to Malnutrition in the West African Sahel (World Bank)
This study estimates marginal increase in malnutrition for children ages 1–3 years from exposure to an extreme shock in the…
Sahel Crisis Humanitarian Needs and Requirements Overview 2022 (Reliefweb)
Over 30 million Sahelians, most of whom are women and children, will require lifesaving assistance and protection in 2022, an…
The importance of food systems in a climate crisis for peace and security in the Sahel (ICRC)
“The objective of this paper is to demonstrate and discuss the importance of food systems under a climate crisis in…
Sahel: A food crisis fueled by conflict is set to worsen during lean period (ICRC)
“More than 10.5 million people in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Mauritania are at risk of facing hunger during the…
Joint Note on the Nutrition Situation in the West and Central Africa Region (WCA Regional Nutrition Working Group via UNESCO)
“In the Sahel G5+1 countries, results of the nutritional surveys carried out in 2021 show the persistence, even the increase…
Desertification in the Sahel Region: A Product of Climate Change or Human Activities? A Case of Desert Encroachment Monitoring in North-Eastern Nigeria Using Remote Sensing Techniques (MDPI Geographies)
“The study area and Sahel region as a whole should be delineated as an emergency disaster zone, with intervention projects…
Scale-up action to combat child malnutrition in Africa’s Sahel (United Nations)
An estimated 6.3 million children under five, in six countries in Africa’s Sahel region, will suffer from wasting this year,…
Hunger in West Africa reaches record high in a decade as the region faces an unprecedented crisis (World Food Programme)
The number of women, men and children affected by a food and nutrition crisis in West and Central Africa is…
Food crisis: the EU takes action to support Africa’s Sahel and Lake Chad regions (European Commission)
A total of €554 million in 2022 will be targeted at increasing food security in Sahel and Lake Chad, where…
How pastoralism supports livelihoods and builds peace (foodforafrica.com)
The Sahel region, which stretches from the Sahara desert in the north to the southern savannahs of Sudan, plays a…
The nutrition hotspot analysis: Prioritising intervention areas in the Sahel countries (ENN)
Since 2019, humanitarian and government partners have collaborated to develop a nutrition hotspot analysis tool. Despite the challenges associated with…
Central Sahel: Improve children’s wellbeing and learning – Increasing psychosocial support in schools (UN OCHA)
“The humanitarian impact of this crisis is worrisome with a number of displaced people multiplied by 10, growing from 213,000…