Photo: Briefing with Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Dakar- Senegal

Canada steps up support to Senegal

 

Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper is in Senegal. During a briefing with UN agencies today, he stressed that Canada was not indifferent to the food and nutrition crisis raging in the region. Canada, he said, will make a new aid contribution to help fight hunger and malnutrition, restore the agriculture sector and prevent future humanitarian crisis in Senegal.  

Briefing with Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Right), Said Djinnit, SRSG for West Africa (left), and representatives from WFP, UNDC, OCHA and the Resident Coordinator (left side of the table)