[UNHCR] Dakar -- As the number of refugees fleeing armed conflict and human rights violations in the Central Sahel has sharply increased over the past 12 months in West Africa's coastal countries, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have launched a US$142 million joint response plan for refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced people and host
