Additional supplies en route to Niger

Two more cargo planes have been chartered to bring vital supplies to Niger.

Two more cargo planes have been chartered to bring vital supplies to Niger.

GOAL has confirmed that the emergency food supplies will include eighty tonnes of corn soya blend, a food supplement.

In the last 48 hours the agency has fed nine thousand people in the Abala region.

Earlier in the week the President of Niger, Mamadou Tandja, visited a GOAL feeding centre.

“The response has been one of the fastest and most efficient food aid programmes I’ve ever witnessed,” he said.

Failed rains and a locust infestation wiped out much of last year’s crop of millet, the staple cereal of the Sahel.

According to aid agency Concern of a population of 12 million, an estimated 3.6 million people are directly affected with over 800,000 children suffering from hunger.

There is still two and a half months to go before the next harvest.

Despite the international response that is now getting underway, Concern say the situation has reached a critical point which could lead to disaster.

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