Afrique de l'Ouest : Profil humanitaire et défis de dévoppement (Octobre 2009)

Responding to humanitarian emergencies in west africa is becoming more and more complex due to a deteriorated human security environment. Chronic poverty, rising socio-political instabilities, threats to the Rule of Law and enforcement of right-based approaches to prevent privileged and/or violent access to resources and contributing factors. While the end of violence in Liberia, Sierra-Leone, Guinea Bissau, and Côte d'Ivoire was a critical step forward, traditional humanitarian challenges remain, and are compounded by the emergence of sudden onset crisis or encroaching and long-lasting phenomena such as climate change. (...)

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