Sahel’s plight worsens amid fighting, says UN aid chief
03/18/2015. Conflict in Africa’s Sahel region is the biggest threat to saving lives in one of the poorest places on earth, according to the UN aid chief in charge there.
Robert Piper, who’s UN Regional Humanitarian Co-ordinator for Sahel, said that in the last 12 months alone, more than one million people have been displaced by fighting in countries including north-east Nigeria and northern Mali.
Listen to the interview on the UN website
Related Articles
Memo to Congress: Don’t Cut Foreign Aid
06/15/2017. US spend less than 1 percent of the federal budget on foreign assistance.
International humanitarian law: answers to your questions
01/22/2015. This booklet is an ideal introduction to international humanitarian law.
The “New Way of Working”: Bridging aid’s funding divide
06/09/2017. The so-called New Way of Working (NWOW) has, according to its champions, the potential to radically improve how emergency relief programmes are designed and delivered.
