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A nurse measures the brachial perimeter of a child suffering from acute malnutrition
Press release
07/17/2020
West and Central Africa: More than 15 million expected cases of acute malnutrition in 2020
United Nations Agencies alert on unprecedented impact of food insecurity and COVID-19 on child malnutrition
Malnutrition Crisis
Article
07/17/2020
Acting Now to Avert a Nutrition Crisis in the Sahel region
A Deteriorating Nutrition Situation in the Sahel region
Child eating
Report
06/12/2019
Early action and scale-up of emergency response 2018
How FAO, UNICEF and WFP addressed the immediate needs of the most vulnerable people?
Fatou Youm, 46 years old, brings her grand daughter Tening Gueye who is 2 1/2 year old and suffers from malnutrition
Emergency alert
01/30/2019
Malnutrition
Malnutrition is a major cause of death in children.
Aminetou Mint El Moctar, human rights activist (Mauritania)
Video
01/08/2019
Aminetou Mint El Moctar
In Mauritania, Aminetou Mint El Moctar is an outspoken activist who raises taboo issues to fight for women’s rights.
A mother feeding her child Plumpy'nut during an Early Childhood Health Consultation at health facility in Namoungou village, situated around 30 km east of Fada N'gourma in eastern Burkina Faso.
Press release
11/16/2018
Number of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition across the Sahel reaches 10-year high
More than 1.3 million children to receive emergency treatment in 2018, but more investment in prevention measures needed to influence trends in 2019 and beyond
Mauritania 1
Photo Essay
08/01/2018
Mariam, a resilient young woman in the desert
Mariam is one of those young women who face numerous challenges, but goes on smiling.
Amy Sow, a Mauritanian visual artist, sits at her studio in Nouakchott, Mauritania, 26 February, 2016.
Video
06/15/2018
Amy Sow
In Mauritania, painter Amy Sow uses her art work to end violence against women
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.
Press release
05/03/2018
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

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