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West Africa: Crisis Talks Call for Urgent Aid to Sahel
UN News, 15 February 2012
Delegates at a meeting convened by the United Nations to draw up strategies to respond to the humanitarian crisis in West Africa's drought-prone Sahel region today called for… Read more »
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West Africa: 'A Catastrophic Year' As Hunger Crisis Looms Over Sahel
IPS, 15 February 2012
Seven out of the eight governments in the Sahel - the arid zone between the Sahara desert in North Africa and Sudan's Savannas in the south - have taken the unprecedented step of… Read more »
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West Africa: Aid Groups Hold Crisis Meeting Over Sahel Drought
UN News, 13 February 2012
The leaders of United Nations aid agencies, humanitarian organizations and donor governments will meet on Wednesday in Rome to discuss how to urgently scale up assistance in… Read more »