{"id":11376,"date":"2020-10-22T08:35:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T05:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=11376"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:17","slug":"sahel-at-breaking-point-as-donors-pledge-billions-in-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/10\/22\/sahel-at-breaking-point-as-donors-pledge-billions-in-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Sahel At &#8216;Breaking Point&#8217; As Donors Pledge Billions in Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The UN Secretary General has warned that the Sahel region is at a breaking point as donors pledged more that \u20ac1 billion to help the crisis-hit African region.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>International donors on Tuesday agreed to give \u20ac1.4 billion ($1.7 billion) in aid to the central Sahel, which the UN said was close to &#8216;breaking point.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conditions in the sub-Saharan belt spanning Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are worsening, with 13.4 million people in need of assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donors agreed &#8220;to help stem what would otherwise become one of the world&#8217;s biggest humanitarian crises,&#8221; the UN said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Denmark hosted the virtual summit, in partnership with Germany and the EU, in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The central Sahel region is at a breaking point,&#8221; UN Secretary General said in a video message. &#8220;It is a warning sign for us all requiring urgent attention and resolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guterres said violence was on the rise and internal displacement had increased 20-fold in less than two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of families facing hunger has tripled, the UN chief added, while climate and the COVID-19 pandemic threatens livelihoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We need to reverse this downward spiral with a renewed push for peace and reconciliation,&#8221; Guterres said. <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202010210099.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Secretary General has warned that the Sahel region is at a breaking point as donors pledged more that \u20ac1 billion to help the crisis-hit African region. International donors&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}