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Oxfam announces Baaba Maal as its new global ambassador; The Senegalese singer calls on the world to act in West Africa

Senegalese singer and new Oxfam Ambassador Baaba Maal urged the world to respond to the food crisis in West and Central Africa before it is too late, having just returned from visiting communities in Senegal. Eighteen million people are threatened by this year’s food crisis in the Sahel region of West and Central Africa, 850,000 of whom live in Baaba Maal’s home country of Senegal. And in the area of Matam visited by the musician, the effects of drought have hit hard.

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