Op-Ed
23 April 2012
A new nutritional crisis is brewing in the Sahel region. Repeated warnings and appeals to the public's generosity remind us of it every day. But what do these calls actually reveal?
That more than 600 children are dying every day from the consequences of lack of food in the Sahel.
That more than 500,000 severely malnourished children were treated in 2011 in eight Sahelian countries of West Africa.
That the seasonal peak of malnutrition, which corresponds to the hunger season, will probably be more serious than usual in certain regions, where contingent factors – climatic, political and economic – will exacerbate poverty, lack of access to health care and the inequitable distribution of food...
19 December 2011
Description/Caption 23-year-old Nako Kakala in the paediatric ward of Niangara hospital with her 1-year-old son Samuel. He is undergoing treatment for malaria.
