Page4 <strong>The</strong><strong>Trumpet</strong> <strong>The</strong><strong>Trumpet</strong> Group Tel: 020 8522 6600 Field: 07956 385 604 E-mail: info@the-trumpet.com <strong>The</strong><strong>Trumpet</strong>Team PUBLISHER / EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: ’Femi Okutubo CONTRIBUTORS: Moji Idowu, Ayo Odumade, Steve Mulindwa SPECIAL PROJECTS: Odafe Atogun John-Brown Adegunsoye (Abuja) DESIGN: Xandydesigns@gmail.com ATLANTA BUREAU CHIEF: Uko-Bendi Udo 3695 F Cascade Road #2140 Atlanta, GA 30331 USA Tel: +1 404 889 3613 E-mail: uudo1@hotmail.com BOARD OF CONSULTANTS CHAIRMAN: Pastor Kolade Adebayo-Oke MEMBERS: Tunde Ajasa-Alashe Allison Shoyombo, Peter Osuhon <strong>The</strong><strong>Trumpet</strong> (ISSN: 1477-3392) is published in London fortnightly Advertising: 020 8522 6600 THINKING OF WRITING A BUSINESS PLAN? MAY 6 - <strong>19</strong> <strong>2020</strong> We can help you develop a professional business plan from only £250. For more information, contact us at 07402792146 or email us at: tolu.oyewole@consultant.com Highest forced displacement in Africa Highlighting people’s vulnerabilities, Babar Baloch from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), described West and Central Africa as “one of largest displacement situations in Africa…we are talking about 5.6 million internally displaced people, more than 1.3 million refugees and 1.6 million stateless.” <strong>The</strong> UN refugee agency has repeatedly called for greater support for increasing numbers of people forced to flee for their lives amid renewed conflict in West Africa’s turbulent Sahel and Lake Chad region. Burkina Faso has also witnessed massive displacement - of more than 838,000 people since January 20<strong>19</strong> – a figure which keeps climbing with each passing day. In recent weeks, the agency said that armed groups had targeted thousands of Malian refugees sheltering in camps near the border of Burkina Faso and Mali. <strong>The</strong> agency condemned attacks on 2 <strong>May</strong> on Malian refugees in Burkina Faso – “reportedly by the country’s security forces”, in Mentao refugee camp in which at least 32 people were injured. <strong>The</strong> camp is located in Burkina Faso’s volatile Sahel region close to the border with Mali and hosts some 6,500 refugees, UNHCR said in a statement. For WFP the priority continues to be the most vulnerable individuals. Hand-to-mouth existence <strong>The</strong>y include “the urban poor - who live hand-to-mouth – (who) are most at risk”, Ms. Byrs said, highlighting how COVID-<strong>19</strong> travel restrictions had compromised the transport of supplies and the functioning of open-air markets that serve most people, resulting in price increases in some countries. Movement restrictions could also affect farmers as the planting season approaches, WFP said in a statement, warning that “an inadequate response” News 43 million face desperate food shortages Continued from Page 1< to current needs “would put the future well-being of millions of people in the region at stake, particularly women and young children”. It could also lead to civil unrest in parts of a region already challenged by insecurity and violent extremism, the agency said, before adding that it was seeking to overcome challenges in partnership with the authorities. A significant problem is the halt in school meal distribution, which has affected 18 million pupils supported through Government-led programmes and 2.2 million schoolchildren in WFPsupported schools. “When Governments have had to close schools and stop (serving) school meals, we have worked with them,” said Ms. Byrs. “We are working with them, to organize distribution points for the most vulnerable families who can take food rations so that they aren’t penalized, as schools have been forced to shut, in line with confinement measures.” She added: “We have put in place monitoring and evaluation systems to help us to target the most at-risk populations, and we do that with partners, with Governments of course, and the international humanitarian community, in the largest sense of the term.” WFP urgently requires an additional $574 million to provide crucial assistance for the next six months in West Africa. <strong>The</strong>se requirements are likely to increase in the coming weeks as the impact of COVID-<strong>19</strong> is fully analysed. 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