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Niger fights off food crisis

4/07/2012 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Food, Malnutrition, Niger by Caritas Communications

“Today is a day of hope,” said Haman Abdou. “With the help of Caritas, I know I’ll have enough to sow my field as soon as the rain begins to fall.” Haman Abdou is a local farmer living in the Ouallam region, 160 km north of Niamey, Niger’s capital. He is one of the many ...

A last line of defence against child malnutrition in Niger

4/07/2012 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Food, Malnutrition, Niger by Caritas Communications

“Don’t cry Adrjiera,” said Momeye to her baby girl. “Don’t suckle so hard. My breast milk is finished as I too must eat.” The 20-year-old mother arrived a day ago in this feeding centre in Saga, a suburb of Niger’s capital Niamey. Her daughter suffers from severe acute malnutrition, a life threatening condition requiring urgent ...

Niger: On the hunger frontline

4/07/2012 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in the Sahel, Food, Mali, Malnutrition, Niger by Caritas Communications

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB2g-pASdCc&feature=plcp] The film is also available in French and Spanish

The food crisis in Sahel: how do we prevent the next one?

3/07/2012 Advocacy, Africa, Burkina, Chad, Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Food, Mali, Malnutrition, Niger by Caritas Communications

By Rev. Msgr. Robert J. Vitillo, Head of Caritas Internationalis Delegation to the UN in Geneva On 02 July 2012, Floriana Polito and I had the pleasure of convening some influential figures in the fight against hunger and poverty. Caritas Internationalis, together with Oxfam, held an important side event focused on human rights in the ...

Niger: a shelter made from cardboard

21/06/2012 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Niger by Caritas Communications

West Africa’s food crisis at a glance

28/03/2012 Africa, Burkina, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Food, Mali, Malnutrition, Mauritania, Niger by Caritas Communications

What is the humanitarian situation in West Africa’s Sahel region? More than 12 million people will face acute food shortages in the Sahel region of West Africa unless early and effective action is taken now to prevent the crisis. People in Niger, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso and Chad are already suffering from a lack of ...

Act now to stop hunger crisis in West Africa

23/03/2012 Advocacy, Africa, Burkina, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in the Sahel, Mali, Mauritania, Niger by Caritas Communications

More than 12 million people in West Africa are threatened with food shortages. Caritas says action is needed now. A poor harvest in 2011 and high food prices risks pushing the people in the Sahel belt stretching across Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Chad, Burkina Faso and Senegal over the edge.

Mali refugees in Niger need clean water

9/03/2012 Africa, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Mali, Migration, Niger, North America, Refugees, United States by Caritas Communications

By Helen Blakesley and Caritas Internationalis staff American Caritas member Catholic Relief Services, Caritas Niger (SECADEV) and its partners are mobilising emergency water, hygiene and sanitation facilities to meet the urgent needs of thousands of Malian refugees in neighbouring Niger. Fighting in northern Mali between the army and a rebel group has forced more than ...

Conflict in Mali adds to West Africa’s woes

23/02/2012 Advocacy, Africa, Burkina, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Mali, Mauritania, Migration, Niger, Peacebuilding, Refugees by Caritas Communications

“The sound of gunfire woke us up,” said Mr Mahmouda, who fled his village in Mali after it came under attack from rebels. “Although we were not directly threatened, we were scared. We took all we could carry and fled in the direction of Niger,” he told Caritas Niger. Some 120,000 people have been forced ...

Ending hunger

7/07/2011 Advocacy, Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in the Sahel, Food, Malnutrition, Niger by Caritas Communications

Deadly hunger once again stalks Niger. It affects people like Abdoulai and his family in the dry, sandblasted village of Toudoun Jaka. The rain never came here last year; the land cracked and Abdoulai’s fields produced less than a single bag of millet, not enough for his children for a week.