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22 May 2012
The British Red Cross is sending a further £120,000 from its Disaster Fund to support work in west Africa tackling a severe food crisis.
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is helping across Burkina Faso, Chad, Senegal, Mauritania, Mali and Niger.
Usually Sorhow's family grows enough millet and sorghum to feed themselves, but inadequate rainfall caused their last harvest to fail.
Alwilayat has already lost two daughters under the age of five and is facing a daunting struggle to feed her two sons.
As Ouilimatou lies, listless, in his grandmother’s lap he does not look like a child who is nearly two years old.
Hadjatou cradles her six-month-old son after learning from a Red Cross nurse that her baby is acutely malnourished.
21 Mar 2012
The British Red Cross has released £125,000 from its Disaster Fund in an attempt to head off a looming disaster in the Sahel region of west Africa.
16 Mar 2012
To help stem the worsening food crisis across west Africa, the British Red Cross has launched its West Africa Food Crisis Appeal.
A major food shortage affected almost eight million people in west Africa. We helped with the logistics of delivering food aid.
We launched an appeal in 2006 to help people across Africa survive when drought and inflated prices left them without enough food.