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West Africa and the Sahel - 44 .09M 11%

12 Sep 2023

In Nigeria, The number of people facing high levels of acute food 4% <1% Of the 15 countries in this region that were selected the geographical coverage of the CH analysis expanded GhGaHnAaNA 83% 13% insecurity in 2023 has increased for a fifth consecutive for inclusion in the GRFC 2023, all have data from 21 states and the FCT to 26 states and the FCT or 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% year, reaching abo. [...] In Ghana, In the first half of 2023, the number of violent events favourable distribution of rains across the Sudanian and GUINEA the percentage of the population analysed increased in the six countries most affected by conflict and 17.1 Sahelian zones for the 2023 rainy season with pockets of from 44 percent to 100 percent and from 72 percent to insecurity was 9 percent higher than during the fir. [...] This is mainly due southern Nigeria and a risk of flooding in riverine areas of to the persistence of security crises in border areas, SSEENEGAL 9.5 northern Nigeria, Senegal, Northern Togo, the Niger and In ten countries – Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, including the Lake Chad Basin and the Central Sahel, as Burkina Faso (CILSS, June 2023). [...] By June 2023, 7.1 million people in 14 countries, particularly in Nigeria 9.68 million people were displaced, of whom 7.8 million BBUURRKKIINNAA FASO -3.6 (26 states and the FCT), Chad, the Niger and Cameroon The largest declines in the prevalence of acute food were internally displaced and 1.9 million were refugees (OCHA, February 2023). [...] Inflation was persistently high in several countries in the region, notably in Sierra Leone, Ghana and Nigeria, Amid the general increase in the cost of food baskets, underpinned by significant depreciation of national prices of staple cereals – mostly sorghum, millet and currencies against the US dollar, high prices of fertilizers maize – followed mixed trends in the first six months 2 9 | G R F.
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