Commissioners Georgieva and Piebalgs call high-level meeting on Sahel food crisis
The hunger crisis in the Sahel is expected to peak in the weeks to come, threatening 18 million people across West Africa. Acting in line with its commitment to help the people of the Sahel survive this crisis and develop greater resilience to future ones, the EU Commissioners for humanitarian aid, Kristalina Georgieva, and for development, Andris Piebalgs, are organising a high-level meeting on charting the way out of the crisis and away from potential repetitions.
The meeting will take place next Monday at the Commission's premises in Brussels. It will gather together international donors, representatives from Senegal, Gambia, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad and Nigeria, as well as international and local organisations. Among the delegates will be Valerie Amos, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Nancy Lindborg, the Assistant Administrator for Democracy at USAID.
The meeting could not be timelier or more important given that communities in the Sahel are set to enter the peak of the food crisis, and discussions on resilience and breaking the cycle of drought are gathering pace.
Part of the meeting will be web-streamed on Monday: Morning session | Concluding session.
