Aid agencies call for a 'surge' in aid effort to help 10 million facing hunger in West Africa

By Gerald Businge on July 8, 2010 Aid agencies fighting hunger, Christian Aid against hunger, famine in West Africa news & events, Public Platform

Press Release/ Webtorial 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. The centre of the crisis is Niger, where seven million people, almost half the population do not have enough food. […]