Geneva Palais Briefing Note on the Central Sahel (ahead of the Ministerial Conference on 20 October 2020)
Geneva, 16 October 2020 - The multiple crises converging in the Central Sahel, including a surge in armed violence and the socio-economic fallout from COVID-19, is worsening conditions for children in one of the world’s poorest, least-developed regions. A record 7.2 million children in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger now require humanitarian…