A food crisis in the Sahel is affecting children as families cannot afford to buy food and are withdrawing children from school.
May 31, 2023 1:03 PMA food crisis in the Sahel is having a devastating impact on children as families cannot afford to buy food and are withdrawing children from school, a new report has found., a charity organisation, was titled ‘The impact of food and nutritional crisis on children in Burkina Faso and Niger’ and was launched this week.
Food prices have skyrocketed in Niger and Burkina Faso due to extreme weather patterns such as flooding and drought.The war in Ukraine has also driven up the prices of imported foodstuff. “Currently, parents are unable to feed their children, and some do not hesitate when they have the opportunity to release a child. It is true that you will see few fathers who will recognise this, but marriage is an opportunity to free your child. In a way, it’s one less person to feed,” SCI quoted a respondent to have said.
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