UN  renews appeal for aid in drought stricken Niger

New York, 31 Aug-(ANA)-The United Nations humanitarian arm is seeking urgent assistance for Niger, where recent flooding has displaced nearly 200,000 people and aggravated a food crisis in which almost half of the country’s 15 million people are experiencing hunger.

The floods which began earlier this month have been blamed for at least five
deaths and the loss of 100,000 cattle, according to Modibo Traoré, the head of
the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

in Niger, who noted that the numbers could increase in the coming days.

“We have still one month ahead for the rainy season and currently the rainfall
is continuing almost throughout the country, and we may expect much more victims
of the flood,” he cautioned in an interview with UN Radio. (ANA)