Helen Clark and Valerie Amos in Niger
Food security will become a major issue in the Sahel during the coming months. Helen Clark and Valerie Amos visited the Tillabery region of Niger on a two day mission, to highlight the looming crisis and emphasize the need for long term solutions in the region.
Have joint visit with @ValerieAmos to #Niger next week. Early warning re #Sahel needs to be followed by early action. bit.ly/yTkXkO
Up to 14 million people at risk of starvation in Sahel | United Nations RadioUp to 14 million people risk starvation in the Sahel region, according to the International Federation of the Red Cross. Nine countries f...- Before Helen Clark traveled to Niger, she met up with heads of UNOCHA, FAO, IFAD, WFP, USAID and the EU's Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid to discuss the crisis in the Sahel region.
- On way 2 #Rome 2 meet with @ValerieAmos @JosetteSheeran @KGeorgievaEU @knwanze @grazianodasilva @nancylindborg on hunger crisis in #Sahel.
'@WFP Rome meeting today on #Sahelcrisis. Need early action+early funding. Better over-respond now than regret lack of action later
This is a call for global mobilization for preventive action, says @WFP's @JosetteSheeran at #SahelCrisis briefing.
We need to build resilience and local capacities to stop jumping from crisis to crisis, in the #sahelcrisis #hornofafrica and elsewhere- In #Niger wi @HelenClarkUNDP. All agree - UN, partners &Govt - we need joined up approach. Better nutrition key to development #SahelCrisis
. @HelenClarkUNDP speaks to PM #Niger and gov't ministers on food security #SahelCrisis http://pic.twitter.com/yGxyKP3u
Map "Anomalie de Production Biomass." Areas w/ little remaining pasture (1 Oct 2011) bit.ly/ycIZl5 @ACF_UK @UNDP #SahelCrisis
Some excellent videos, photos and tweets in this @Storyful piece on drought in the Sahel. bit.ly/xMIh2F #SahelCrisis
Key 2 breaking food crisis cycle in Africa's Sahel is fighting chronic poverty on.undp.org/AflUgY #Sahelcrisis
UN chiefs call for response to the Niger food crisis | UNDPOn the last day of their joint visit to Niger, UN Development and Humanitarian Chiefs Helen Clark and Valerie Amos travelled to the south...- Visited garden run by women's group with @HelenClarkUNDP. bit.ly/ABr3wV Feeding a village. Changing lives forever. #Sahelcrisis
