Cristophe CALAIS

In the last decade, Niger has known recurrent food crisis due to severe drought and increasing desertification. This situation has been worsened by an unprecedented desert locust plague in 2004. The following year, Niger's government addressed the situation by providing paying assistance, which the most impoverished could not afford. The United Nations was then late in taking the necessary measures: food aid only began to arrive at the end of July 2005. And yet, the first alarming signs of a potential famine had been registered as early as January. Since then, hundreds if not thousands of children, most of then under the age of three, died from malnutrition.

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	In the last decade, Niger has known recurrent food crisis due to severe drought and increasing desertification. This situation has been worsened by an unprecedented desert locust plague in 2004. The following year, Niger's government addressed the situation by providing paying assistance, which the most impoverished could not afford. The United Nations was then late in taking the necessary measures: food aid only began to arrive at the end of July 2005. And yet, the first alarming signs of a potential famine had been registered as early as January. Since then, hundreds if not thousands of children, most of then under the age of three, died from malnutrition.