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Oxfam announces Baaba Maal as its new Global Ambassador
May 16, 2012 -
Millions of people across the Sahel will be left hungry in the coming months unless multi-million dollar funding shortage for crisis response is filled, aid organizations warn
Apr 23, 2012 -
Conflict in Mali disrupts fragile food markets and threatens to escalate food crisis in West Africa
Mar 30, 2012
- Sahel food crisis
- Actions the US can take to break the cycle of hunger
- West Africa food crisis 2012:15 million at risk
- As a funding for the crisis lags, millions of people will be left hungry in the coming months unless the gap is filled.
- Baaba Maal speaks out on the Sahel
- The Senegalese singer, Baaba Maal, calls on the world to respond to a looming food crisis in the Sahel region of Africa.
- When I'm hungry, my heart beats quickly
- In the face of a looming food crisis in the Sahel region of Africa, Oxfam is supporting an array of projects, including women-run cooperative market gardens.
- The Sahel: a food crisis looms
- Low rainfall, poor harvests, and high prices are creating serious problems for herders and farmers in West Africa.
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West Africa food crisis: Senegalese singer Baaba Maal performs benefit concert
Maal visits drought-affected communities to raise awareness in growing Sahel crisis
West Africa food crisis: Dry times in 2011 threaten ability to plant in 2012
A farmer recounts the struggle to grow food and prepare for the 2012 growing season
West Africa food crisis: Farmers cope with food shortages
Confronted with a poor 2011 harvest, farmers find creative ways to earn money to buy food.
In Kolda, Senegal, farmers are struggling to feed their families
The last harvest of peanuts, a major cash crop in this region, plummeted by 60 percent leaving families with little money to buy the food they need.
Struggle in Sahel: 'If there's no pasture, nothing works'
'We've stayed on our ancestors' land and we've put up with everything, but if rain doesn't come, life would turn into a nightmare," says Koubra Hamid.
As food crisis looms, the lean season hits early in northern Senegal
An Oxfam team assesses the conditions around a group of small villages where many of the food reserves are now exhausted.
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