More than 50 million in western and central Africa at hunger risk

More than 36 million is fighting their basic need for food, which is predicted to increase in over 52 million during the Linka season from June to August, the latest analysis reveals.

This includes almost three million people facing emergency conditions, and 2,600 people in smaller who are at risk of catastrophic hunger.

Although the needs in historical high, resources are limited, with millions of life in question.

“Without current financing, WFP It will be forced to be passed by still further as in the number of people who have reached and the sizes of food food“Said Margot Van Der Velden, the Regional Director for Western and Central Africa.

‘Extremely hard and dir’

In 2019, only four percent of the population were food insecurity compared to 30 percent today, according to Ollo SIB, senior research consultant with WFP.

“We hope that our voice will be heard because this food safety in Sahel remains extremely difficult and touched,” he said, speaking from Dakar to Journalists in Geneva.

Mr. Sib recently traveled to some affected areas, such as communities in the northern gang that is growing with unprecedented drush.

“They were forced to leave two to three times, and for them, each failed to sow is an additional financial burden because the cost of fertilizers and seeds were extremely high in these locations,” he said.

The assessment team went to the northern small, which is the only place in the region where people face catastrophic safety conditions.

“We had the opportunity to communicate with pastoralist old people who usually sell their cereals to buy cereals,” he said.

“This year they were concerned because food costs increased by 50 percent compared to a five-year average. But at the same time they are unable to access markets for the sale of their goods.”

Fighting, inflation of food and flood

The WFP said that the conflict is necessary among the factors that drive deepening hunger in Western and Central Africa.

The struggles were widely of the most vulnerable people across the region, including more than two million refugees and asylum seekers, Chad, Cameroon, Mauritania and Niger.

Almost eight million is more displaced, mainly in Nigeria and Cameroon.

Meanwhile, food inflation exacerbated by increasing food and fuel costs push the level of hunger to new HISE.

At the same time, a repetitive extreme time “erodes the ability of families to feed,” WFP said.

Five million at risk

WFP is ready to respond and scales vital help in West Africa and Sahel. The UN agency requires $ 710 million to support their lifelong operations by the end of October.

The goal is almost 12 million people with critical assistance this year.

So far, the teams have already reached three million most endangered, including refugees, internally displaced people, malnourished children younger than five, and pregnant women or breastfeeding women and girls.

The agency stated that five million risks from loss of assistance if no urgent financing was found.

Causing the root address

WFP also called on governments and partners to invest in sustainable solutions focused on building resistance and reduce long-term addiction on assistance.

Since 2018. UN Agency worked with regional governments to resolve the root causes of hunger through a program that has repaired over 300,000 hectares of country to support over four million people in more than 3,400 people.