UN called on Wednesday more than 10 billion U.S. dollars to help feed 11 million people across Africa's arid Sahel risk warns Syria crisis distracted donors humanitarian situation there.
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that this year's war, in which a French-led military action to destroy the Islamic enclave in northern Mali worsened food shortages throughout the region each year.
About 175,000 refugees in neighboring Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania and Niger camp, the lack of food supplies tight. 353,000 people have been displaced in Mali itself, to give up their homes and livelihoods.
Robert Piper, the UN humanitarian coordinator in the Sahel region, donor governments have provided only $ 60.7 billion to an estimated $ 1.72 one billion this year to cross the desolate area, running east across West Africa hunger and to help people at risk of malnutrition.
Piper said, the difference reflects the impact of the financial crisis, reducing the donor aid budgets. EU, U.S., Japan and the UK a major contributor to the appeal.
"Humanitarian funds are under tremendous pressure, because now Syria, Syria amount of funds needed to charts," Piper said. "Syria accounted for more than 40 billion U.S. dollars of the $ 1.3 billion global United Nations humanitarian appeal, OCHA officials said.
Syria conflict has caused 10 million deaths, and according to the UN, driven 1.7 million outside the country to seek asylum.
Mali, the amount of non-humanitarian purposes has been used can also be interpreted donor fatigue. 12,000 strong from this month's deployment of United Nations peacekeeping missions could cost about $ 7 million a year, Piper said.
"Mali is overshadowed other regions a little bit, I suspect they feel they've done a lot of some of the capital of the Sahel," Piper said. "
, Which has by far the most serious nutritional statistics in the region, the deteriorating humanitarian situation in northern Mali prompted the United Nations to increase $ 100 million, from the size of the appeal earlier this year.
Nevertheless, the United Nations has received less than a third of the $ 5 million in humanitarian contributions for Mali, the Earth's poorest countries.
Deterioration
Risk from hunger this year increased from 18 million in 2012, nine countries in the arid Sahel region was hit the second time in three years, OCHA said that.
However, this is 1130 people remain in the risk of food insecurity, despite good rains, reflecting the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the region basis, Piper said.
In many markets across the region, food prices higher than the five-year average of 50-60%.
"Now the question is, when we want to begin to reverse the humanitarian needs in the Sahel escalating trend?" He said.
In a region on the planet's fastest population growth, over-cultivation of agricultural land indicates good weather is no longer enough to relieve the problem.
Piper said that donor funds, capital scarcity, to emergency food and refugee program, bypassing the agricultural program, which will help provide a long-term solution.
Appeal provides only about one million farmers from the grain and livestock support, making them less food insecurity goals 8,000,000.
 



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