Niger Could Deteriorate Further As The Fastest Growing African Country Confronts A ‘Perfect Storm’
Most of Niger is infertile. Two-thirds of the country is located in the Sahara desert. Issouf Sanogo/AFP/GettyImages Niger, a landlocked country in the dry Sahel region of Africa, struggles to feed its 25 million people. It currently ranks 115th out of 121 countries on the Global Hunger Index, and the number of people not getting…