Call for urgent action for Sahel food crisis

Rotimi Josaya, the regional director of the International Program for the West and Central Africa region, has stated in his report that programs and budgets to address the livelihood challenges of the region have failed.
 
In the coming season, 9.7 million people in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger are expected to face acute food insecurity.
According to the World Food Organization, the situation in this area is worsening in an alarming manner.
 
In Niger, food consumption has declined in almost all regions, exceeding the emergency thresholds set by the World Health Organization for global acute malnutrition and severe acute malnutrition.
 
Prolonged war, displacement and climate events on the Central Coast are the leading cause of this growing food crisis.
 
The report also states that in addition to attacks on civilians, non-governmental armed groups loot and destroy crops, steal livestock, and extort money from communities. Hundreds of thousands of families live without the minimum means of subsistence.
 
Markets in affected areas no longer function. Agriculture, trade, and transportation systems have been significantly affected, the livelihoods of millions of people are at risk, and the war over natural resources continues.
 
The report predicts that as the Ukraine crisis continues, food insecurity in the Central Coast will increase sharply as the region faces declining global grain supplies and rising fuel prices. The price of agricultural items, including fertilizer, is gradually growing and affects agricultural production and crops.

_{Source: RW, WFP}