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Niger Devastated By Hunger
After a prolonged drought, heavy rains have now hit parts of the country, killing at least six people. Food needs to be transported into remote areas that suppliers cannot always reach. This is only going to become more challenging as the rainy season gets underway, the United Nations fears. More than 67,000 people lost their homes after severe rains in the past week.
The River Niger - the third largest in Africa - reached its highest level for 80 years, said the regional river authority, the ABN.
But the rains came too late to rescue this year's crops, which have already failed. Poor and erratic rainfall has affected agricultural production and pasture availability throughout the Eastern Sahel.
The Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. But over 80 percent of the country is covered by the Sahara desert. Much of the non-desert portions of the country are threatened by periodic drought and desertification. The economy is concentrated around subsistence and some export agriculture clustered in the more fertile south, and the export of raw materials—especially uranium ore. Niger remains handicapped by its landlocked position, desert terrain, poor education and poverty of its people, lack of infrastructure, poor health care, and environmental degradation.
A dramatic deterioration of the nutrition situation in the country has led to the World Food Programme (WFP) significantly expanding its programme with a sharp focus on the needs of malnourished children.
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