Food crisis
The World Food Programme has warned that unless the international community renews its commitment to deal with the consequences of the catastrophic food crisis in Niger, a successive year of extreme suffering and hardship is likely.
Niger has been a 'silent emergency' in essential areas such as health, nutrition, water and sanitation for years. It is one of the world's poorest and least developed countries and holds the second highest under-five mortality rate in the world. With the knock-on effects of this year's famine - triggered largely by drought and locust invasions - over 1.2 million people are estimated to have enough food stocks for just three months. Nearly two milion more face a precarious year struggling to maintain what are already borderline livelihoods.
Angela Robson went to Tillabery, one of the hardest hit regions of the famine, in western Niger.
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