Humanitarian partners will need $4.7bn to assist 20.9 million vulnerable people in parts of Nigeria, Chad, and five other African countries.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs disclosed this in the 2024 Humanitarian Needs and Requirement Overview report published on its website on Thursday.
The international community are encouraged to give to humanitarian needs to make the humanitarian plans to be implemented by the end of the year.
The lives of 32.8 million people across the Sahel are affected by a complex and interlinked web of crises, which are exacerbated by instability, a deteriorating security situation, and the effects of climate change.
The Sahel is a region of Africa separating the Sahara Desert to the north and tropical savannas to the south and covers Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal.
The Sahel, growing violence and conflict threaten lives and livelihoods, forcing families to flee their homes and preventing access to basic social services.
“Humanitarian partners require US$ 4.7 billion in 2024 to meet the urgent needs of 20.9 million people in Burkina Faso, Cameroon’s Far North Region, Chad, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria’s Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states.
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