West Africa: As Millions Face Hunger in Sahel, More Accountability Is Needed to Attract Support, Warns Red Cross President

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About 5.8 million people across Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal are struggling to get enough food and require immediate assistance. To respond to their needs adequately, humanitarian actors need to manage well the funding they receive from their partners and well-wishers, warned Francesco Rocca, the President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), during a visit to Guinea, from 18 to 20 June 2018.

"Accountability, integrity, transparency and effectiveness should be at the heart of all National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies policies and programmes. It's imperative to adopt these principles of good governance to build up a relationship of trust and attract more partners and volunteers," said Rocca at the end of the tenth General Assembly of the Association of French, Spanish and Portuguese speaking African Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (ACROFA) in Conakry.

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