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16 January 2023

Joint Press Release: 25 million Nigerians at high risk of food insecurity in 2023

08 December 2022

FAO, UNICEF and WFP call for urgent and long-lasting action in West and Central Africa as the region faces another year of record hunger with thousands experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity

Sahel & West Africa: Alarming Food & Nutritional Insecurity

An unprecedented level of food and nutritional insecurity

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Seated on the lap of his mother, Okachatata Ichaka, 16 months old, is found to be suffering from severe acute malnutrition during a screening at the health center of reference in Gao.

Nutrition Crisis in Mali

The nutritional situation of children under 5 years in the Sahel countries remains worrying and may worsen further.

A woman caresses the head of her sleeping malnourished baby, at the mother and child centre in the town of Diffa, in the Diffa region on 20 February 2017.

UN urges the world to act now to save lives in West Africa's Sahel

5 million people in need of food assistance and 1.6 million children at risk of severe acute malnutrition, 2.5 million pastoralists and agro-pastoralists require urgent livelihoods assistance