7.5 million people in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger suffer from “severe food insecurity,” the American non-governmental human rights organization International Rescue Committee warned Monday.
“The scale of acute food insecurity and associated malnutrition continues to increase in the region,” the committee wrote in a statement. “In the Central Sahel region alone (Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger) 7.5 million people are affected, an increase of 5.4 million compared to last year.” “.
About 70 million people live in these three countries.
This phenomenon may worsen in these countries, as well as in Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria, between the harvest seasons from June to August next year.
The statement quoted Modou Diaw, regional vice president of the International Rescue Committee in West Africa, as saying, “In West and Central Africa, food insecurity has gradually worsened over the past five years.”
He added that “climate shocks have exacerbated this phenomenon,” as well as “malnutrition and insecurity,” which are “pushing young people, men and women to migrate inside and outside the region.”
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are on the list of 46 least developed countries drawn up by the United Nations.
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