The 2023 regional report of the Inter-State Standing Committee for the Fight against Drought in the Sahel (CILSS) on food crises in the Sahel region and West Africa is made public. It’s a byproduct of the World Food Crisis Report.
Senegal is one of eight countries among the 16 selected in the Sahel and West Africa to have surpassed the threshold of a million people in crisis at worst.
“(…) of the 16 countries selected for analysis
of food crises in 2023, eight are considered to be major food crises due to their meeting the CFRG criterion of exceeding the threshold of one million people in crisis at worst (Phases CH 3 to 5) in one or every two 2023 analysis periods”, indicates the report.
These eight countries are Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria (26 states and TCF), Senegal, Sierra Leone and Chad. Similarly, Burkina Faso, Mali and Nigeria also met the criterion of having emergency classified analysis zones (Phase CH 4) in the 2023 periods. No country in the region met the criterion of exceeding the threshold of 20 per cent of the analysed population in crisis at worst (Phases CH 3 to 5).”
Ivory Coast the only country to have lived without food aid
According to the report “In 2023, only one country in the Sahel and West Africa space – Côte d’Ivoire – had not requested external food assistance at the time of this report and therefore was not considered a food crisis country in 2023 according to CFRG criteria.”
However, CH data are available for Côte d’Ivoire and indicate that about 870,000 people, or 4 percent of the population analysed, Faced with high levels of acute food and nutrition insecurity during the period March to May 2023 while 1.02 million or 5 percent of the population analyzed were projected to be in crisis phase at worst (Phases CH 3 to 5) in the lean period from June to August 2023.
