Sahel food crisis – how the Guardian is telling the story

0: Life in Burkina Faso (gallery)

 

1: Baaba Maal: people in the Sahel region need food and water now

2: Fears grow for the Gambia as food insecurity increases

Africa's smallest country is struggling with the combined effects of failed rains, rising food prices and poor harvests Read more

3: Extreme hunger in east Africa and the Sahel: forewarned but not forearmed

Pictures of starving children give donors an instant justification to release aid. Predictions of starvation, however accurate, do not Read more

4: Sahel hunger crisis worsens as aid agencies admit massive cash shortfall

Oxfam leads calls for action to prevent repeat of east Africa disaster, saying 'the world never seems to act early enough' Read more

5: Chad's malnourished children offer stark illustration of Sahel food crisis

Rising therapeutic feeding centre admissions highlight growing urgency of situation in one of Sahel's driest, most remote areas Read more

6: Sahel food crisis mapped (graphic)

7: Chadian women describe the hardships they face (audio)

Chadian women in the Bahr-el-Ghazal and Guera provinces speak about the poor harvest over the last few years and the difficulties they have in feeding their children Read more

8: Call for urgent action in Sahel to prevent humanitarian emergency

9: Drought crisis in Mauritania (gallery)

Aid agencies say they are facing a major funding shortage to deal with a food crisis in the Sahel. In Mauritania, Oxfam wants to reach at least 70,000 people with food and clean water See more pictures

10: Sahel crisis funding tops agenda as European commission convenes

With west Africa's food crisis worsening, delegates in Brussels will look at the aid shortfall and the need to build resilience Read more

11: UN and NGOs appeal for Sahel aid

Aid agencies face funding shortfall to tackle hunger as drought in Sahel and political uncertainty worsen crisis for millions Read more

12: Locust invasion threatens crops

Infestations of locusts could destroy farmers' efforts to replenish food stocks in the Sahel, an area suffering drought and hunger Read more

13: Sprouting success in Senegal

Farmers are finding that restoring soils with trees boosts crops in a region where drought has caused successive food crises Read more

14: Mauritania key stats

Population: 3.5m

15: Senegal key stats

16: The Gambia key stats

17: Mali key stats

18: Burkina Faso key stats

19: Niger key stats

20: Chad key stats

21: Niger faces food shortages (video)

Poor rains and a bad harvest in 2011 has left an estimated 5 million Nigeriens at risk of hunger Watch the video

22: European commission pledges further €40m

 

23: Another example of too little, too late

The politics of aid can delay early intervention, despite last year's famine in Somalia showing early aid can achieve more Read more

24: Mali refugees struggle to settle in Burkina Faso as food crisis deepens

Tuaregs fleeing conflict have put their own stamp on Mentao camp but adapting to refugee life is least of their problems Read more

25: Talk point: the Sahel hunger crisis and global food security

Food insecurity is dominating development debates. We want to know whether you think solutions are still out of reach Read more

26: Global development podcast: hunger in the Sahel