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20 Apr 2012
The Red Cross has started a livelihoods programme in Liberia to help more than 9,000 people still struggling after Ivory Coast conflict.
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.
"In 12 years volunteering for the Red Cross I have never seen a catastrophe like the current food crisis here in the Sahel region of Mali."
Kadiatou Konnare is facing a more daunting struggle to feed her seven children than most people will ever know.
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.
With the current food crisis in the Sahel, Habi’s family is facing a daunting task to protect the health of their precious young.
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.