• Although the Autumn rains were better than those of former years, a lack of resilience to poor previous harvests, coupled with violence in the border areas of Niger-Mali-Burkina Faso, Lake Chad and Mauritania- Senegal, will exacerbate the 2019 hunger season.
• One in five people needing humanitarian assistance globally live in the Sahel, yet this area receives only 12% of the world's aid.
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