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West Africa: Billions Pledged to Sahel as Global Leaders Visit
UN News, 4 November 2013
Global leaders have pledged over $8 billion to boost economic growth in the Sahel region of West Africa as they begin a United Nations-led visit to an area that has suffered for… Read more »
Global Leaders Pledge Billions for Sahel
Global leaders have pledged over $8 billion to boost economic growth in the Sahel region of West Africa as they begin a United Nations-led visit to an area that has suffered for decades from devastating poverty, hunger and instability.
Drought in the Sahel region has made agriculture difficult for women in Yelimne, Mali.
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West Africa: Global Leaders Pledge Billions for Sahel
World Bank, 4 November 2013
Signaling a renewed focus on boosting economic growth and lifting people out of devastating poverty in Africa's hard-hit Sahel region, two international development agencies… Read more »
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West Africa: Security in the Sahel and the West's Military Fixation
ThinkAfricaPress, 12 February 2013
Western powers are responding to insecurity in the Sahel by instigating greater military projects. But this could lead to the very outcomes the West is trying to avoid. Read more »
InFocus
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With millions of Sahelians estimated to be short of food this year, humanitarian agencies have revised their appeal upwards to U.S.$1.7 billion in order to help combat hunger, ... Read more »
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Even though aid agencies estimate the number of people in the Sahel region at risk of going hungry this year has dropped, the 2013 regional strategy calls for U.S.$1.66 billion to ... Read more »
