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Tiny Bassma Mofeed fell ill when she was just a few months old, battling a soaring fever and mouth problems.

The EU’s funding, received through the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations department (ECHO), enabled WFP to provide vital food assistance to 45,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) lacking access to food between April and December 2022, and to about 705,000 vulnerable people across the country severely affected by food insecurity during the agricultural season from July to

Less than one week before I flew to Burkina Faso in November, with the emergencies team at the World Food Programme (WFP), miners working for a Canadian-owned goldmine were on their way to work when militants ambushed and attacked them, killing 39 and injuring 60. The incident was a clear example of the violence gripping Burkina Faso all year. Since the start of 2019.

In the Lake Chad region, climate change and conflict exacerbate each other. On one hand, indiscriminate and continuous violence prevents people from adapting to new climate conditions.

"When we arrived, we did not know where to sleep, which is why the village chief allowed us to stay," says Tasseré Sawadogo.

On a hot October afternoon in Ouallam district, in Niger's western Tillabery region, the air is still as the sun's rays hit the hard, crusty, red earth. Contrasting with this almost lunar surface is a field of green. "This site's changed everything for us," says Biba, a woman in her fifties, pointing to where a few men and women are using sickles to harvest grass.

The latest analysis by the Cadre Harmonisé  indicates an increase in acute food insecurity of more than 50 percent since the situation in Burkina Faso was last assessed in March.