Morning Briefing

"Senior United Nations officials [on Tuesday] made impassioned appeals to the international community to make more resources available to assist millions of people affected by the severe food and nutrition crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa, cautioning that global inaction could lead to a humanitarian disaster," the U.N. News Centre reports (4/10). "UNICEF's Executive Director Anthony Lake said at least one million -- and possibly up to 1.5 million -- children in the region face acute, severe malnutrition, putting them at risk of death from starvation or disease," the Associated Press/Washington Post writes, adding, "Unless donor countries provide more funds, 'the result will be many children will die and many families will suffer,' he said" (4/10).