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Significance
Affected communities face long-term economic consequences, and their governments -- already resource-poor, and with budgets stretched thin by insecurity, corruption and COVID-19 -- are not in a position to help much.
Impacts
Recurrent crises in the Sahel may dent governments’ overall capacities to think and act on a medium-term time horizon.
Given that several capitals are heavily affected, authorities may struggle to find and distribute resources for more remote affected zones.
Appeals for funding will fall shorter than average, given the lack of bandwidth from donors because of COVID-19.
Keywords:
West Africa,
AF,
Chad,
Niger,
Senegal,
Sudan,
Burkina Faso,
Mali,
social,
natural disasters,
refugees,
water
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