Impact stories

The food crisis currently affecting the Sahel is a result of several causes including drought, high food prices, and regional instability. Certain factors might have a bigger influence than

“If we have nothing to eat, after a while we will die.” The words of Hasta Abdelkarim, 46, are remarkably strong. A visitor asks her if she is afraid of dying. “Yes. After that, it’s over – there is nothing,” she sentences.

All of the above statements actually happened when I tried to apply for a job in the men-dominated field of security. And I accepted to get discouraged but only for a little time or a maximum of a few days.

Welcoming groups of people into your community isn’t always easy – they need to find a place to live and food to eat and this can put pressure on villagers who already struggle to support themselves. Despite these obvious difficulties, communities all…

For Matipaka, the last 16 years have been a struggle. For 14 of those years she had to care for her children while her husband, an army battalion commander

Humanitarian need growing in South Sudan as rainy season approaches a severe food crisis is growing in South Sudan and as the rainy season approaches the situation has the potential to deteriorate further.

Driving from Niger’s capital Niamey to the town of Konni for five hours through the sand-swept, arid Sahel region, I listened to the audio book The Hunger Games. The novel opens with a scene of bleak poverty in a post-apocalyptic town called District 12…

She is only forty but her eyes and her wrinkled face bear witness to a life of hardship. A widow and a mother of six, Tchima Ibrahim Iro has no means to support herself and her family, and relies on other people’s handouts

Mali has experienced massive population movements since fighting erupted two weeks ago in the northern cities of Gao, Kidal, and Timbuktu. More than 107,000 people have been displaced within Mali, according to the World Food Programme, and more than 128…