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More than 9 million in Sahel face food crisis-Oxfam
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December 13, 2011, Tuesday
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MORE than 9 million people in five countries in Africa's Sahel region face food crisis next year, following low rainfall, poor harvests, high food prices and a drop in remittances from migrants, aid agency Oxfam said yesterday.
People in Mauritania, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali and Chad, are at particularly high risk, with national food reserves dangerously low and prices of some key cereals as much as 40 percent higher than the five-year average.
"The food situation in the region is once again alarming," Eric Hazard, Oxfam regional economic justice manager, told a news conference in Dakar. "We are in a region today where we have a cereal deficit of about 2.5 million tons."
In some countries such as Chad and Mauritania, estimates show a fall in cereal production of about 50 percent, compared with last year's production.
Hazard said the most alarming situation is in Niger where 6 million - almost a half of the population - were at risk.
In Mali, 2.9 million people live in areas that may be hit by food shortage next year, while in Mauritania 700,000 people - more than a quarter of the population - are reported as at risk of severe food insecurity.
The UN World Food Program (WFP) estimates between 5 and 7 million people are affected by what it called climate-related crisis and are in need of urgent assistance, with at least a million children in the Sahel facing malnutrition next year.
People in Mauritania, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali and Chad, are at particularly high risk, with national food reserves dangerously low and prices of some key cereals as much as 40 percent higher than the five-year average.
"The food situation in the region is once again alarming," Eric Hazard, Oxfam regional economic justice manager, told a news conference in Dakar. "We are in a region today where we have a cereal deficit of about 2.5 million tons."
In some countries such as Chad and Mauritania, estimates show a fall in cereal production of about 50 percent, compared with last year's production.
Hazard said the most alarming situation is in Niger where 6 million - almost a half of the population - were at risk.
In Mali, 2.9 million people live in areas that may be hit by food shortage next year, while in Mauritania 700,000 people - more than a quarter of the population - are reported as at risk of severe food insecurity.
The UN World Food Program (WFP) estimates between 5 and 7 million people are affected by what it called climate-related crisis and are in need of urgent assistance, with at least a million children in the Sahel facing malnutrition next year.
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