Mon, 22 Nov 2010
Brussels - European Union aid for the famine-stricken region of the Sahel in Africa is to reach 74 million euros (136 million dollars) in 2010, the bloc's executive said Monday.
The increase is the result of the European Commission's decision to double funding for humanitarian and food assistance from 20 to 40 million euros.
"People living in the Sahel region need our support to survive. This financial engagement shows that Europe cares," EU humanitarian aid commissioner Kristalina Georgieva said in a statement.
The EU executive said that food insecurity was affecting over 10 million people in the Sahel - a semi-desert region that cuts across the continent, through Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Algeria, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea.
The situation was most acute in Niger and Chad, with northern Nigeria, Burkina Faso, eastern and northern Mali and northern Cameroon also hard hit, the EU commission indicated.
Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/354689,eu%C2%A0ramps-aid-famine-stricken-sahel.html.
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