WEST AFRICA’S SAHEL REGION STILL IN CRISIS AND REQUIRES URGENT SUPPORT BUT THE UNITED STATES SEE OTHERWISE A LINE FROM CAMEROON TO EGYPT TO UNITE TO DIVIDE IN SUCH ON HOLD OF ASSISTANCE, SAYS UN OFFICIAL

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Date: 11 Jun 2013 15:00:01 -0400
Subject: WEST AFRICA'S SAHEL REGION STILL IN CRISIS AND REQUIRES
URGENT SUPPORT, SAYS UN OFFICIAL
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WEST AFRICA'S SAHEL REGION STILL IN CRISIS AND REQUIRES URGENT
SUPPORT, SAYS UN OFFICIALNew York, Jun 11 2013 3:00PMA senior United
Nations humanitarian official today appealed for urgent support to
tackle the ongoing food and nutritional crisis in the Sahel region of
West Africa and respond to the needs of 11.4 million people facing
food insecurity.

"Crises in this region are becoming more frequent, they're getting
closer and closer together and as a result, people are finding it
harder and harder to get back on their feet before the next one comes
along," Robert Piper, UN Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the
Sahel, told a news conference in New York.

The Sahel region consists of Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali,
Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Gambia, and Nigeria. The humanitarian
community has appealed for $1.7 billion to help millions in need this
year in the region, which is still reeling from the crisis that
affected some 18 million people in 2012. This year's appeal is only 36
per cent funded.

Mr. Piper noted that "a lot of things went right in 2012" – donors
responded quickly, the Governments of the region recognized the
problem early, the UN system mobilized, and the UN Central Emergency
Response Fund (CERF) "really proved its weight in gold" in terms of
being a fast disbursing mechanism.

"We really are getting better and better at responding to these kinds
of large-scale humanitarian crises, certainly in the Sahel," he
stated. "But of course, the real goal has got to be to reduce the
demand for this kind of humanitarian response in the first place."

Despite better rains and harvest projections for 2013, Mr. Piper said
the international community finds itself in a region that is still in
crisis, with over 11 million people affected by food insecurity. The
region is also dealing was a huge number of refugees and internally
displaced persons (IDPs).

"We have to recognize that one good agricultural season is not going
to reverse the situation in a place like the Sahel," stated Mr. Piper.

"People are not getting enough time to climb out of these holes of
vulnerability. Markets are not functioning well because of insecurity
across the whole region. The population growth is generating a
momentum of its own. And as these crises keep getting closer and
closer together, families are really adopting more and more negative
coping mechanisms with long-term consequences," he added.

While Mali is definitely "at the heart" of today's crisis in the
Sahel, the problems in the region go way beyond one country, he noted.

In Mali, about half a million people are food insecure and more than
4.3 million people are in need of humanitarian aid after fighting
broke out in January 2012 between Government forces and Tuareg rebels.
The conflict uprooted thousands of people and prompted the Malian
Government to request assistance from France to stop the military
advance of extremist groups.

Mr. Piper noted that while Mali is having a "tremendous" spill-over
effect, a country like Chad – with its refugee caseload and its own
food insecurity and nutrition crisis – is requiring a huge amount of
support.

He added that the region is home to some of the most vulnerable people
in the world, noting that his first visit to the region after taking
up his post felt like "a tour of the bottom of the human development
index." Niger ranks 186 out of 186 countries on the UN's Human
Development Index, while Chad is 184 and Mali is 182.

"These extraordinarily vulnerable people are facing natural disasters
with higher and higher frequency and greater and greater intensity.
And each time, they're finding it harder to recover."Jun 11 2013
3:00PM
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