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Food Crisis in Sahel - Updates

Oxfam response to WFP scale up in drought-stricken Niger
20 July 2010
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Oxfam welcomes UK's response to Niger and Sahel food crisis
13 July 2010
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Aid agencies call for a 'surge' in aid effort to help 10 million facing hunger in West Africa
8 July 2010
Ten leading aid agencies today called for a 'surge' in the humanitarian effort to help 10 million people at risk of acute hunger across the Sahel region of West and Central Africa.
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Food crisis in Niger – 2010 photo gallery
21 June 2010
Irregular rains in 2009 have led to a severe lack of pasture, water and a poor harvest in Niger. Oxfam is distributing food and supplies and buying weak livestock from herders at above market levels.
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Food crisis in Niger – photo gallery

Effects of drought in Chad – 2010 photo gallery
7 May 2010
A structural vulnerability, the lack of rain and crop failure is leaving the central area of Chad in a critical situation of food security. Resources are scarce and ever more pressing needs.
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The effects of drought in Chad – photo gallery

Water scarcity causing food insecurity in Mali
5 May 2010
Scarcity of water is making it almost impossible to grow food in Gao, Mali. The international community must act now to help the people facing a food crisis in West Africa.
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Children and animals draw water from wells.

Food crisis in Chad: Looking for food in the anthills
20 April 2010
In the village of Djaya in Chad, more than 20 women dig the earth at the village entrance. Everyone calls them the “termitières” because they are experts at finding the anthills that have the most seeds in the area.
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Amne, one of the “termitières”. Credit: Cristina Vazquez/Intermón Oxfam