U.N. raises $1.7 bln for hungry, displaced millions in Sahel

The United Nations raised more than $1.7 billion in pledges on Tuesday to fund aid efforts in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger for the rest of 2020 and 2021 as U.N. aid chief Mark Lowcock warned a ...
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U.N. seeks $2 billion aid for Sahel as conflict worsens

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United Nations appealed on Thursday for $2 billion to help more than 20 million people across Africa's Sahel belt, where increasingly erratic weather and ...