Increasing need for humanitarian assistance in Niger to increase in 2020

Currently, around 10 percent of the population of the West African country, around 2.3 million people, requires humanitarian aid to survive.

The number of people requiring humanitarian assistance in Niger, a country which the UN humanitarian agency, OCHA, says is “being assaulted on all fronts”, is expected to increase in 2020. 

Currently, around 10 percent of the population of the West African country, around 2.3 million people, requires humanitarian aid to survive.  

Conflict, climate change and the arrival of refugees from neighboring countries have all combined to drive up the number of people who are not getting enough to eat, in what is already one of the world’s poorest nations. 

But now, the Nigerien government, with the support of UN agencies, is helping the most vulnerable people.