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Hunger in the Sahel: a permanent emergency?

Ensuring the next drought will not cause another humanitarian crisis:

This briefing note addresses the need for the fight against hunger and malnutrition in the Sahel to be fought before, during and after crises. It calls for contingency planning to be

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Indications pour une culture urbaine de prévention et de gestion des risques climatiques au Sahel

Cahier des changements climatiques, édition spéciale, Octobre 2010 (in French):

Ce numéro vise à sensibiliser le public urbain sahélien sur les risques liés aux changements climatiques. Il prend en compte les lourdes conséquences des événements

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Simple tools help a drying African region cope with climate change

In the Sahel region of western Africa prone to extreme events such as prolonged drought periods and more heavy rainfall, simple projects involving local knowledge and farmers long used to coping with climatic fluctuations have proven to be successful...
Deutsche Welle
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Maplecroft’s 'Climate Change Risk Atlas 2010' highlights vulnerable nations and safe havens

Somalia, Haiti and Afghanistan are the countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change according to the Climate Change Vulnerability Index (CCVI), released today by global risks consultancy, Maplecroft...
Verisk Maplecroft
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SDC Switzerland: Women in action in disaster aid and humanitarian reconstruction

On the occasion of the International Women's Day the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit (SHA) highlights womens' roles in delivering projects before, during and after disasters in Haiti and Chad...
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
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African Parliamentarians agree on concrete actions to reduce the impact of climatic disasters

UNISDR-lead advocacy results in recognition of crucial synergies between disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation N’Djamena- Parliamentarians and Ministers from Central African countries met in Chad last Saturday and recognized disaster risk reduction measures as a main tool to adapt to future climate related disasters that are already affecting many countries in Africa.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Photo by Flikr user, Michael Von Bergen, Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Generic
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Chad: Experts validate climate change adaptation plan

In a bid to cope with the challenges of climate change, the National Adaptation Programme of Action to Climate Change (NAPA) was validated after a two-day workshop which brought together Chadian experts ...
African Press Agency
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UNICEF Humanitarian Action Report 2009

The year 2008 has seen significant global humanitarian challenges ranging from devastating natural disasters, escalating food and oil prices to worsening conflict situations. In recent decades, the number and severity of natural disasters has increased

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