Hunger

On average more than 40 young children have been dying a day in one area surveyed in the east of the country.



"If they pledged the same amount every year to a permanent emergency fund at the UN, preventable crises like Niger and southern Africa would not happen."

Food aid is urgently needed for Mali, where the same famine that struck neighbouring Niger is intensifying, the United Nations emergency food agency warns.

Tens of millions of Africans will continue to go hungry over the next 20 years unless major changes in trade and aid policies are enacted, a report forecasts.

Yes! I would like to help feed people in Niger

Niger food aid is 'misdirected' (...) Thousands have probably died of hunger in recent months