MATAM ¨C The Government of Senegal and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today launched the distribution of fortified rice in schools to address micronutrient deficiencies, improve children¡¯s health and wellbeing, and promote quality education.
DAKAR ¨C Torrential rains have unleashed catastrophic floods in West and Central Africa, affecting over four million people in 14 countries ¨C the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today warns. The worrying spike in humanitarian needs comes amid a regional hunger crisis already affecting 55 million people ¨C four times more people than five years ago.
DAKAR ¨C Above-average rainfall and devastating flooding across West and Central Africa has affected five million people in 19 countries across the region, claiming hundreds of lives, upending livelihoods, displacing tens of thousands from their homes and decimating over a million hectares of cropland - in a region already in the grips of an unprecedented hunger crisis. This climate-related disaster is one of the deadliest the region has seen in years and is likely to deepen the already worrisome hunger situation for millions.
DAKAR ¨CThe United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in partnership with the Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS), the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), and the Senegalese Ministry of Economy, Plan and Cooperation, today launched the annual forum of intergovernmental organisations from West Africa, to examine and address the impact of emerging risks and challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and the unfolding crisis in Ukraine.
DAKAR - As conflicts and rising food prices continue to weaken the food security situation in the Western and Central African region, the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a euros 8.4 million contribution from France aiming to respond to the emergency food and nutrition needs of vulnerable populations in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal.
