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Niger: hard struck by the recent famine

By on June 9, 2010
The president of the Economic Community of Western African States (ECOWAS), James Gbeho, declared to Foreign Ministers, in Abuja, that the situation in the Republic of Niger was very bad, and the country is hardly struck by the recent famine, and provoked the death of numerous inhabitants of Niger.

This famine was provoked by the severe drought in certain regions of Sahel, adding that the commission worked 24 hours a day to capitalise on the positive aspects and limit the damage.
Except the governance and the nature challenges, the region was also confronted with drug trafficking, illegal immigration, money laundering and with cross-border criminality.
In his speech, the special U.N representative to Western Africa, Said Djinnit, raised that the poverty which gets worse and the deterioration of the living conditions had led to an increase of the political and social tensions in the sub-region.
He stated also that “food insecurity and floods have affected, in a persistent way, a considerable number of West-African populations for several years now”. These phenomena provoked frustration, anger and hatred tension between populations”.
The U.N envoy indicated that his Office would pursue its partnership with the ECOWAS in the sector of security, and will approach, among others subjects, the political situations in Togo, Ivory Coast,  Guinea, Burkina Faso and in Niger.

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