Thanks to contributions from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, WFP began distributing the first vouchers in the western village of Yaloké.
"Most of our livestock had been looted during this crisis. This food voucher will allow us to get milk for our children, and choose other foods that we like," said Yaya Abiba, one of 500 people, mostly herders, displaced in Yaloké.
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