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Date Time Share Explosive mix of soaring food prices and conflict drives up hunger by a third across West Africa WFP . Many people in Nigeria are struggling to support their families due to rapidly escalating food prices.” title=”WFP/Arete/Adetona Omokanye, Women buys tomatoes in Yankaaba Market in Kano, Nigeria on 11th April, 2021. Many people in Nigeria are struggling to support their families due to rapidly escalating food prices.”> WFP/Arete/Adetona Omokanye, Women buys tomatoes in Yankaaba Market in Kano, Nigeria on 11th April, 2021. Many people in Nigeria are struggling to suppor...

Explosive mix of soaring food prices and conflict drives up hunger by a third across West Africa Format Women buys tomatoes in Yankaaba Market in Kano, Nigeria on 11th April, 2021. Many people in Nigeria are struggling to support their families due to rapidly escalating food prices. © WFP/Arete/Adetona Omokanye DAKAR – Millions of families in West and Central Africa are growing more hungry and desperate by the day as food prices skyrocket – stoking a widening hunger emergency in a region engulfed by conflict and the socioeconomic fallout from COVID-19, the United Nations World Food Progr...

More than 31 million people across West and Central Africa may not have enough to eat in the coming months as hunger rises due to an “explosive mix” of skyrocketing food prices, conflict and fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. The figure is more than 30 per cent higher than last year and represents the highest level over most of the past decade, according to a joint food security analysis assessment released under the auspices of the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS), a regional organization. Misery multi...

Arora Akanksha wants to prioritize funding to ensure all refugees provided with required humanitarian assistance to survive Updated 17 min 30 sec ago TARIQ AL-THAQAFI April 04, 2021 00:52 MAKKAH: Arora Akanksha, an audit coordinator at the UN Development Project, faces a tough challenge as the first female millennial candidate running for the role of UN secretary-general. For years, the selection process at the UN has been a closed-door process; candidates are appointed by the UN General Assembly on the recommendation of the UN Security Council. Every five years, selected candidates must rec...

KSrelief distributes 100 tons of dates to needy in Somaliland February 16, 2021 KSrelief concluded on Monday its project to distribute 100 tons of dates to needy, benefiting 100,000 people, in cooperation with the National Authority for Drought Control and Food Security in Somaliland. KSrelief concluded on Monday its project to distribute 100 tons of dates to needy, benefiting 100,000 people, in cooperation with the National Authority for Drought Control and Food Security in Somaliland. HARGEISA — The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Ce...