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Central Africa: More Than 50 Million in West and Central Africa At Risk of Hunger
UN News, 9 May 2025
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that millions of people in West and Central Africa are facing record hunger as conflict, displacement, economic hardship and repeated… Read more »
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Central Africa: Deepening Hunger Crisis Looms in West and Central Africa - UN
allAfrica, 9 May 2025
A senior researcher for the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) says West Africa is experiencing a severe food and nutrition crisis, and insufficient funding is worsening… Read more »
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Central Africa: Hunger Crisis Threatens West and Central Africa As Lean Season Looms
WFP, 8 May 2025
WFP races to provide food assistance to millions on the brink Read more »
UN Warns of Record Hunger Crisis in West and Central Africa
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned that millions of people in West and Central Africa were facing record levels of hunger as conflict, displacement, economic hardship, and repeated extreme weather pushed the region toward a major crisis.
From June to August, more than 36 million people struggled to meet their basic food needs, and that number is expected to rise to over 52 million. This included nearly three million people facing emergency conditions and 2,600 in Mali at risk of catastrophic hunger. Margot van der Velden, Regional Director for West and Central Africa, said that without immediate funding, WFP would be forced to further scale down both the number of people it reached and the size of food rations distributed.
WFP attributed the deepening hunger crisis in part to ongoing conflict, which had displaced more than 10 million vulnerable people across the region, including over two million refugees and asylum seekers in Chad, Cameroon, Mauritania, and Niger. Nearly eight million more were internally displaced, primarily in Nigeria and Cameroon.
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