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.