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Italiano DAKAR – Nearly 17 percent of Niger’s children younger than five suffer acute malnutrition, a 5 percent increase over the same period last year, according to a national survey released by the government. More than 15 percent acute malnutrition is classified as a critical emergency by the UN World Health Organization (WHO). The report links this increase to the poor 2008-2009 harvests.
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 IRIN  22/06/2010DAKAR – Nigeriens are likely to take years to recover from selling their weakened livestock at a fraction of its normal value due to drought in the Sahel region. Continue reading Forced to sell cattle for a handful of dollars IRIN 15/06/2010DAKAR – Logistical and funding constraints could cause shortages in the food aid pipeline from July onward, hampering distributions to some of Niger’s 7.8 million food-insecure people, say NGOs and the World Food Programme (WFP). More cash distributions could be the answer. IRIN 23/04/2010WARRI – The government’s amnesty programme whereby militants in the Niger delta are to be disarmed and rehabilitated with a stipend, job training and a micro-credit loan, has been linked to reduced violence in the delta, but critics say it has made the same mistake as almost every other disarmament, demobilization, rehabilitation and reintegration (DDRR) campaign: too much “dd” and not enough “rr”‘. Continue reading Nigeria’s Delta amnesty at risk of unravelling IRIN 27/01/2010DAKAR, 27 January 2010 (IRIN) – The agro-pastoral areas of Diffa and Zinder in southern Niger are likely to see a rise in food shortages and malnutrition in the coming months, according to an assessment by the US-funded Famine Early Warning System. http://www.fews.net/niger/ Continue reading High food insecurity, malnutrition, predicted in Niger IRIN 22/10/2009DAKAR, 22 October 2009 (IRIN) – Irregular and below-average rains in parts of northeastern Nigeria and eastern Niger have shortened the growing season for many farmers, sparking malnutrition and food insecurity concerns among aid groups and analysts. IRIN 26/09/2008For 17 years, the Sweden-based non-profit Eden Foundation has been working with hundreds of farmers in one of Niger’s most arid zones to disprove the reigning logic that the desert is a tough place to nurture plant- and human- life through its research and free seed distribution. Coordinator Josef Garvi [...] |
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