"The year 2022 has been particularly violent for children in the central Sahel. Forty percent of all mothers who die in childbirth are in this region. For example, the region is home to one-third of the world's children who die before they reach age 5, and one-third of the world's children who are out of school. Twelve percent of the world's children live in the region, but that 12 percent suffers a disproportionate burden of child deprivation. It is one of the toughest places in the world for children to grow up. It is a region that rarely makes the front page or leads the news cycle. ‘The Sahel’ refers to 10 countries in West and Central Africa - Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal. "Armed conflicts are increasingly affecting children, who are victims of intensified military clashes or targeted by non-state armed groups," observes Unicef's regional director for West and Central Africa, Marie-Pierre Poirier, in a statement.Īccording to UNICEF’s Chief of Emergencies for West and Central Africa Nicola Bennett, in humanitarian emergencies, children tend to suffer first, and often they suffer most, especially in the Sahel region. Ten million children living in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are in urgent need of humanitarian aid, twice as many as in 2020, in the face of intensifying conflict, Unicef said Friday.īurkina Faso, the scene of two military coups in 2022, has been caught since 2015 in a spiral of jihadist violence that began in Mali and Niger a few years earlier and has spread beyond their borders.
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