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The number of 👥 in need in Burkina Faso, Northern Cameroon,Chad,Mali,Niger, and North-Eastern Nigeria 📈 from 24M in 2018 to over 30M in 2022 due to the combined effect of:
🚨 increasingly violent conflicts
🚨 deep poverty
🚨 climate change
🚨 unprecedented food insecurity Image
@OMSNiger @WHONigeria @OMS_Burkina @whocmr @omsmali @OMS_Afrique @unis_sahel @UN_UNOWAS Only less than half of the 2021 humanitarian appeal for the Sahel was funded.

Despite this, WHO and partners continued to work in the Sahel region to prevent the humanitarian situation from getting worse.

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In 2021 despite security and funding challenges WHO helped over 300,000 people in #BurkinaFaso🇧🇫 with

✅ emergency supplies to treat cholera
#COVID19 trauma, and severe acute malnutrition treatment
✅ medicines to manage chronic conditions

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More than 1⃣3⃣ people across #CentralSahel need urgent humanitarian response to a multidimensional crisis involving:

⚠️poverty
⚠️poor health systems
⚠️climate change
⚠️natural disasters
⚠️weak governance
⚠️conflict

#SahelNow
Along with #COVID19, Central Sahel faces a complex crisis of food insecurity, armed violence, and disrupted health services, affecting:

👥1.5M displaced
👥7M food-insecure
👥800K severely malnourished children
👥6500 killed in the last 12 months

#SahelNow
WHO is committed to continue working with donors and partners to focus on:

#COVID19 control;
✅maintaining essential health services;
✅socio-economic focus on food security, social services, peace, and livelihoods

#SahelNow
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