Niger : a country at the crossroad of risks

This map below is part of an “Early Warning Early Action (December 2014-May2015) Report” released by the IASC Task Team on Preparedness and Resilience. The report, as does the map, reflects a joint view among analysts of different UN agencies on emerging risks which could lead to an increase of persons in need of humanitarian assistance. The map visualizes the risk factors Niger is facing in its geographic vicinity: the Ebola Virus Epidemic in the southwest, civil strife in Nigeria in the southeast, and an ongoing crisis in Libya on its northern borders


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