India, May 7 -- More than 2,500 people to face catastrophic, famine-like conditions if no urgent action is taken, organisation warns

A large section of the population in west and central Africa will face severe food insecurity from June to August, which is considered the lean period between harvests, warned International Rescue Committee (IRC), a global humanitarian aid, relief and development nongovernmental organisation.

IRC analysed 17 countries in the region: Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, Gambia and Cape Verde. The organisation analysed the latest Cadre Harmonise report, which is the unified tool for the consensual analys...