Hundreds of thousands of people in Senegal and Mauritania are at risk of going hungry in the coming year because not enough grass has grown to feed the region's cattle, analysts said. Satellite maps show barren pastures across large swaths of the two West African countries, which means animals will die, robbing owners of their sole source of food and income.
"Livestock herding is the key pillar of food security for the area," said Alex Orenstein, a data scientist specialising on pastoralism in the Sahel. Herders feel the pain first, but it touches everyone in the region soon enough."
"The situation is very worrisome," said Zakari Saley Bana, a disaster risk reduction advisor for the charity Action Against Hunger (ACF).
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