World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

The recent rain deficit in Mauritania has had a severe impact on the land.

Many animals have died due to lack of fodder and water. 

Many animals have died due to lack of water and fodder. 

 Many animals have died due to lack of water and fodder. 

 Herders travel great distances to reach water points for their livestock.

Heavily dependent on rainfall, pastoralist communities have been hit hardest by the drought. 

 A field of millet, decimated by the drought.

 A truck transports rice straw from the Senegal River Valley to livestock in Nouakchott, Mauritania's capital.