The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs announced that 32.8 million people across the Sahel region of Africa are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance.
According to the United Nations report, there are “32.8 million people in the Sahel region affected by a complex and complex set of crises, exacerbated by instability, deteriorating security situation, and the effects of climate change, in a way that makes them in need of humanitarian aid and protection services.”
The report warned that “the lives of these millions will be at risk if the necessary resources for relief workers are not available to be able to respond to these crises,” according to the United Nations.
The report indicated that “humanitarian efforts need $4.7 million during the current year, in order to meet the urgent needs of 20.9 million people in Burkina Faso, the northern region of Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Niger, and the states of Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe in Nigeria.”
He added, “There are two million refugees and asylum seekers in the Sahel region of Africa, and 5.6 million internally displaced people, many of whom have been forced to move several times.”
The report pointed out that “the effects of the crises in the African Sahel are increasingly extending outside the region,” and that the countries of “Benin, Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire), Ghana, and Togo host more than 123,000 refugees and asylum seekers, while Mauritania has more than 128,000 of them.”
It should be noted that the African Sahel region is located in western Africa and north-central Africa and extends in its broadest definition from east to west through Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, and Eritrea.
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