Sahel update
Text : WFP Photos : Action Press/Virot Geneva, 10 April 2012 The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today warned that many lives risk being lost to hunger and malnutrition in the drought-hit Sahel region of West Africa unless new donations are received immediately for a massive food assistance operation. The window of opportunity to save lives is narrowing by the day, there are only four weeks left to procure 180,000 metric tonnes of cereals and 36,000 metric tonnes of pulses…