A year into Ukraine war, food prices rise and aid drops in Niger
Effects of the war are still being felt in one of the world’s poorest countries as inflated prices eat into budgets.
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Effects of the war are still being felt in one of the world’s poorest countries as inflated prices eat into budgets.
Tens of millions of people are facing hunger in West Africa’s Sahel region, where conflict, surging prices and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic have spawned the worst food-security crisis in a decade, the Alliance for International Medical Action said.
Seven countries in the Sahel need US$3.8 billion (S$5.24 billion) in aid and have received US$600 million. Read more at straitstimes.com.
A small charity broke ground this year on a clinic in northern Burkina Faso to care for thousands of women and children who have fled Islamist insurgents wreaking havoc along the fringes of the Sahara, but when Russia invaded Ukraine in February, global supply chains buckled and the cost of building materials, fuel and food spiked in west Africa. The charity’s founder, Boukary Ouedraogo, was forced to make a tough decision: He halted construction of the clinic with only the foundations laid. Similar calls are being made across sub-Saharan Africa, where aid projects are threatened by the fall...
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