WFP: ‘Urgent action is needed’ to end growing humanitarian crisis in Sahel
Jul 22, 2023, at 09:58 pm
New York: The ongoing conflict in Sudan is impacting food security and migration across West and Central Africa, depleting scarce resources, exacerbating inter-communal tensions and putting major stress on the already underfunded humanitarian response, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.
Central Sahel: Lives of 10 million children on the line as conflict rages
Mar 18, 2023, at 05:21 pm
New York: Children are increasingly caught up in armed conflict in the climate-affected, food insecure central Sahel region, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday.
UN official calls on Security Council to support a ‘secure, peaceful and prosperous Sahel’
Nov 18, 2022, at 10:34 pm
New York: The security situation in the Sahel continues to deteriorate, a senior UN official told the Security Council on Wednesday, explaining that indiscriminate terrorist violence “means thousands of innocent civilians are suffering, and millions of others are forced to leave their homes”.
Sahel security crisis ‘poses a global threat’, Guterres warns
Sep 23, 2022, at 04:21 pm
Rising insecurity, including the proliferation of terrorist and other non-State armed groups, coupled with political instability, is creating a crisis in the Sahel that poses a “global threat”, the UN chief warned Thursday’s high level meeting on the vast African region, which took place behind closed doors at UN Headquarters in New York.
18 million in Africa’s Sahel on ‘the brink of starvation’
May 21, 2022, at 04:57 pm
New York: As 18 million people in Africa’s Sahel region teeter on the edge of severe hunger over the next three months, the UN released on Friday an additional $30 million from its emergency humanitarian fund, to boost the humanitarian response across four countries.
Scale-up action to combat child malnutrition in Africa’s Sahel
Apr 08, 2022, at 05:51 pm
New York: An estimated 6.3 million children under five, in six countries in Africa’s Sahel region, will suffer from wasting this year, UN agencies and their partners warned in a publication issued on Wednesday.
Africa’s Sahel region facing ‘horrendous food crisis’
Feb 18, 2022, at 08:59 pm
New York: As the Sahel region “stares down a horrendous food crisis”, the UN emergency food relief chief warned on Wednesday that the number of people on the brink of starvation has “increased almost tenfold” over the past three years and “displacement by nearly 400 per cent”.
Burkina Faso: Rising displacement adds to Sahel crises
Feb 06, 2022, at 12:00 am
New York: Insecurity in Burkina Faso, particularly in the region bordering Côte d’Ivoire, is pushing more people to seek safety both within and outside the country, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, reported on Friday.
Decade of Sahel conflict leaves 2.5 million people displaced
Jan 15, 2022, at 09:27 pm
New York: The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) called on Friday for concerted international action to end armed conflict in Africa’s central Sahel region, which has forced more than 2.5 million people to flee their homes in the last decade.
35.8 million face lean season food crisis in West Africa and Sahel
Dec 08, 2021, at 11:01 pm
New York: Growing food insecurity that is already affecting tens of millions of people across West Africa and the Sahel, must not be ignored by the international community, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday.
UNHCR urges greater protection for Sahel communities after deadly attack
Apr 02, 2021, at 09:39 pm
New York: Ten days after armed groups carried out a deadly attack on three villages near the western Niger town of Tillia, UN humanitarians have repeated their call for greater protection of civilians and all those displaced by violence in the Sahel.
Secretary-General underscores need for peace and stability in Africa’s Sahel region
Feb 17, 2021, at 07:24 pm
New York: The UN Secretary-General has underlined his concern for Africa’s Sahel region, where deteriorating security and violence are aggravating an already difficult humanitarian situation that is unfolding amid the COVID-19 pandemic and climate emergency.
Joint UN-INTERPOL operation disrupts firearms supply to terrorist networks in West Africa and Sahel
Dec 22, 2020, at 04:01 pm
New York: An international operation coordinated jointly by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the international police organization INTERPOL has disrupted trafficking networks that supply terrorist groups across West Africa and the Sahel, the UN agency reported on Monday.
UN deputy chief conducts solidarity visit to West Africa and the Sahel
Nov 10, 2020, at 09:26 pm
New York: The UN Deputy Secretary-General is on a two-week solidarity visit to West Africa and the Sahel to underscore the Organization’s support to countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.
UN chief appeals for urgent action to reverse ‘downward spiral’ in Central Sahel
Oct 22, 2020, at 12:04 am
New York: The world must act now to reverse the situation in Africa’s central Sahel region, where humanitarian needs are at “a breaking point”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told a high-level conference on Tuesday to address the burgeoning crisis.
Jun 13, 2020, at 04:45 pm
New York/IBNS: The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has issued an urgent appeal for $186 million to provide lifesaving protection and assistance in the Sahel amidst fears that the conflict in the vast African region – exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic – will spread.
Terrorist groups exploiting COVID-19 in Sahel, UN peacekeeping chief tells Security Council
Jun 06, 2020, at 09:40 am
New York: COVID-19 is complicating an already complex security situation in the Sahel, with terrorist groups exploiting the pandemic as they step up attacks on national and international forces, the UN’s peacekeeping chief said on Friday.
Escalating Burkina Faso violence brings wider Sahel displacement emergency into focus
Feb 22, 2020, at 10:13 am
New York/IBNS: Deadly attacks on villages in Burkina Faso have forced 150,000 people to flee in just the last three weeks, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday, warning of a displacement emergency in the wider Sahel region.
Africa’s Sahel: Act now before the crisis ‘becomes unmanageable’, urges Grandi
Feb 06, 2020, at 08:59 am
New York/IBNS: The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) is stepping up response in Africa’s Sahel region where escalating violence has forced a rising number of people to flee their homes.
‘Unprecedented terrorist violence’ in West Africa, Sahel region
Jan 09, 2020, at 06:52 pm
New York/IBNS: The top UN official in West Africa and the Sahel updated the Security Council on Wednesday, describing an “unprecedented" rise in terrorist violence across the region.
Guinea-Bissau spotlights threats of organized crime, Sahel terrorism in speech to UN Assembly
Sep 29, 2019, at 11:01 pm
New York: Organized criminal networks continue to pose a threat to Guinea-Bissau and undermine stability in the West African nation, Foreign Minister Suzi Barbosa said in her speech on Saturday to the UN General Assembly.
UN chief urges scaled up response for peace, across troubled Sahel’s region
Sep 26, 2019, at 04:08 pm
New York: Humanitarian and development responses for Mali and Africa’s wider Sahel region “are falling short”, and support must be scaled up to ensure a hopeful future for its people, the Secretary-General told world leaders at a special high level meeting inside UN Headquarters on Wednesday.
May 17, 2019, at 09:11 am
New York, May 17 (IBNS): The five-year-old force working to stabilize Africa’s Sahel has shown great potential, but needs more support from the international community to reach full operational capacity, a top UN peacekeepingofficial said on Thursday, calling for enhanced political and economic solutions to help tackle the strife-torn region’s myriad challenges.
Sahel crisis reaching unprecedented levels, warn top UN humanitarian officials
May 09, 2019, at 03:05 pm
New York, May 9 (IBNS): Repeated and increasingly sophisticated armed attacks in the Sahel and food shortages linked to last year’s severe drought, have reached unprecedented levels, putting the future of a “whole generation” at stake, three top UN humanitarian officials said on Wednesday.
More attacks, ‘persisting security challenges’ threaten progress in West Africa, Sahel
Jan 11, 2019, at 08:51 am
New York, Jan 11 (IBNS): A rising number of attacks by extremist groups, using more sophisticated tactics, risk undermining progress in West Africa and the Sahel, the region’s UN envoy told the Security Council on Thursday.
Instability in Africa’s Sahel, spreading outwards, Security Council told
Dec 21, 2018, at 09:30 am
New York, Dec 21 (IBNS): Efforts to address the multiple challenges facing Africa’s Sahel region should be driven by local, regional and national leadership, with the support of international partners as required, the United Nations Special Adviser for the region said on Thursday.
Building climate resilience and peace, go hand in hand for Africa’s Sahel – UN forum
Nov 14, 2018, at 09:55 am
New York, Nov 14 (IBNS): To build a sustainable peace in Africa’s Sahel region, “urgent attention” is needed to mitigate the effects of climate change, and ensure that communities have access to sufficient opportunities, a joint meeting between the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the UN Peacebuilding Commission highlighted on Tuesday.
Jul 18, 2018, at 09:30 am
New York, July 18 (IBNS): There have been “positive developments” when it comes to democratization across the vast West Africa and Sahel region, but that has been “competing with the volatile security situation” particularly around areas where terrorist groups are active such as the Lake Chad Basin, the head of the UN Office for the region (UNOWAS) told the Security Council on Tuesday.
Women vital for ‘new paradigm’ in Africa’s Sahel region, Security Council hears
Jul 11, 2018, at 09:06 am
New York, July 11 (IBNS): Women across Africa’s Sahel region can be agents for a “new paradigm” for peacebuilding and development that benefits all people there, the United Nations Security Council heard on Tuesday.
UN condemns deadly attack against G5 Sahel force headquarters in Mali
Jul 01, 2018, at 04:57 pm
New York, July 1 (IBNS): United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned the attack against the G5 Sahel joint force Headquarters in Mali’s restive Mopti region.