George Fominyen
George Fominyen is AlertNet's humanitarian affairs correspondent for West and Central Africa, based in Dakar. He is also West Africa coordinator for Thomson Reuters Foundation's Emergency Information Service.
Food crisis looms around eastern Sahel in Africa -WFP
Several million people are likely to face a serious food crisis next year in West Africa's eastern Sahel region notably in Chad and Niger , the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has said. Late and erratic rainfall in September and October, a period critical to crop development, has meant there will be a shortfall of food in this region that is between the Sahara desert and the forest parts of sub saharan Africa. ...
WFP to give out food aid to thousands fleeing ethnic conflict in Congo
DAKAR (AlertNet) - The United Nations' World Food Programme next week will start distributing food aid to more than 50,000 people driven out of their homes by ethnic violence in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo. The fighting - unrelated to simmering rebel violence in the mineral-rich east - erupted at the end of last month in the village of Dongo in Equateur province. It has forced more than 38,000 people to flee across the border into neighbouring Congo Republic and displaced 14,000 others internally, the World Food Programme (WFP) said in a statement. ...
Victims of Senegal floods face dire conditions two months on
DAKAR (AlertNet) - Crouching on the roof of her house, 48-year-old Ossida Diatta pins up a mosquito net in a shelter made of used sheets and plastic bags. The makeshift dwelling is home to Diatta and her eight children, along with her late husband's second wife and her seven offspring. They have been living on the roof since August when heavy rains flooded their neighbourhood in Pikine, an impoverished suburb of the Senegalese capital Dakar. ...
FACTBOX-Cape Verde struggles with dengue fever epidemic
DAKAR (AlertNet) - An epidemic of dengue fever is sweeping across the West African state of Cape Verde. Thousands of people have caught the disease which has killed six people in the archipelago, local authorities have said. It is the worst dengue fever epidemic in West Africa and the first ever recorded in Cape Verde. ...
ICRC suspends operations in Chad after kidnap of French worker
DAKAR (AlertNet) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) suspended its field operations in eastern Chad on Tuesday after bandits kidnapped a French staff member. The ICRC has 315 staff -- including 57 expatriates -- working in Chad and is one of the biggest aid operations in the country, particularly in the volatile east where government forces have clashed with rebels since 2006. ...
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