Poor development in Sahel Region gives concern to UN
July 2, 2019
12:05 pm
The United Nations Economic Commission (ECA) has expressed concern over the poor state of development in the Sahel region, including Nigeria.
In a statement on Tuesday by the ECA, the acting Director of the ECA Sub-Regional Office for West Africa, Mr Bakary Dosso said this in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso at a dialogue on the Sahel 2043 Prospective Study.
Dosso said the overall goal of the UN Support Plan for the Sahel, targets 10 countries namely Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal.
He said the goal is to scale up efforts to accelerate shared …
