2025 Sahel Humanitarian Needs and Requirements Overview

The Sahel is a region with enormous potential, beauty, and hope, yet which finds itself at the centre of a complex web of interlinked and mutually reinforcing crises, each fuelling and exacerbating the other in turn. Across the Sahel, there are more than 28 million people in need of humanitarian assistance in 2025 – people who have been forced to flee their homes, who are unable to feed their families or provide them with clean water, who have lost their livelihoods, who lack access to the most basic protection and social services, and/or who live in fear of violence. Having lost their homes, belongings and livelihoods, many people now rely on humanitarian aid to survive. This overview focuses on the six countries with Humanitarian Needs and Response Plans (HNRPs) whose territories or parts thereof constitute the Sahel: Burkina Faso, Cameroon (the Far North region), Chad, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria (Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states in the country’s north-east).