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WFP: ‘Urgent action is needed’ to end growing humanitarian crisis in Sahel

·July 23, 2023·2 min read

The spillover will be devastating for both peace and stability in a region already experiencing political instability, climate extremes, food and water insecurity, and economic decline, the agency warned. Growing crisis “We are increasingly concerned about an overflow from the security crisis in the Sahel into coastal countries – particularly...

On Peacebuilding Day, ambassadors discuss response to organized crime in the Sahel

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·June 25, 2023·2 min read

The PBC, an intergovernmental advisory body launched in 2006, plays a crucial role in supporting peace efforts in conflict-affected countries. Consisting of 31 Member States elected from the General Assembly, the Security Council, and the Economic and Social Council, it brings together top donors and troop-contributing countries. Ambassador Ivan Šimonović of...

Trafficking in the Sahel: Smugglers ‘will take you anywhere’

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·June 17, 2023·7 min read

In this feature, part of a series exploring trafficking in the Sahel, UN News focuses on migrant smuggling. Migrant smugglers have been reaping rich dividends over the past decade in the Sahel, where armed violence, terrorist attacks, and climate shocks have displaced three million people and triggered growing numbers of others...

Trafficking in the Sahel: Muzzling the illicit arms trade

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·June 10, 2023·9 min read

In this feature, part of a series exploring the fight against trafficking in the Sahel, UN News focuses on the illegal arms trade that is fuelling conflict and terrorism. In the Sahel, home to 300 million people, it’s a buyer’s market for guns. Insurgency and banditry plague the region, rooted...

Trafficking in the Sahel: Gas lighting

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·June 3, 2023·7 min read

In this feature, part of a series exploring the fight against trafficking in the Sahel, UN News focuses on the illegal fuel trade in the region. Transported by criminal networks and taxed by terrorist groups, illegal fuel flows along four major routes snaking across the Sahel towards ready buyers, siphoning...

Trafficking in the Sahel: Killer cough syrup and fake medicine

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·May 27, 2023·5 min read

This feature, which focuses on the illegal trade in substandard and fake medicines, is part of a UN News series exploring the fight against trafficking in the Sahel. From ineffective hand sanitizer to fake antimalarial pills, an illicit trade that grew during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 is being meticulously...

Security situation in Sahel remains very worrying, Security Council warned

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·May 16, 2023·3 min read

“Non-State armed groups continue to carry out large-scale attacks against civilian and military targets and engage in clashes over access to resources, territorial control and influence,” said Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, part of the political and peacebuilding affairs department, and UN Peace Operations. The Council...

Central Sahel: Lives of 10 million children on the line as conflict rages

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·March 17, 2023·3 min read

“Brutal” armed conflict has left 10 million children in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger in need of humanitarian assistance – more than double the number in 2020, UNICEF warned in a new report. And hostilities spilling over into neighbouring countries, are putting an extra four million children at risk. “The conflict may...

‘Unprecedented’ insecurity in West Africa and the Sahel, Security Council hears

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·January 11, 2023·3 min read

In her briefing, Giovanie Biha, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Officer-in-Charge of the UN Office for the region, UNOWAS, urged ambassadors to continue to support a strategy centred on building resilience, promoting good governance, and strengthening peace and security. Ms. Biha presented the latest UNOWAS report covering trends...

UN official calls on Security Council to support a ‘secure, peaceful and prosperous Sahel’ |

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·November 17, 2022·4 min read

“This insecurity is exacerbating an already disastrous humanitarian situation”, said Martha Pobee, Assistant Secretary-General for Africa in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, pointing out that women and children are the primary victims of violence and growing inequality. Regionally led force Meanwhile the Joint Force of the Group...

Greater democratic rule vital to boost security in West Africa and the Sahel |

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·July 8, 2022·2 min read

Khatir Mahamat Saleh Annadif was presenting the latest report of the UN Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), which he heads, covering developments over the past six months in areas such as politics, security and human rights. Mr. Annadif highlighted some of the dichotomies across a vast region...