Rural women who have carried their malnourished children for days across the Sahel desert in search of food rush into an emergency feeding centre in the town of Guidan Roumdji, Southern Niger, July 1, 2005. [File, Reuters]
The number of hungry children in West Africa's Sahel region reached a 10-year high in 2018 due to poor rains, conflict and high food prices, the United Nations has said.