Sub-Saharan Africa hosts more than 26 percent of the world’s refugees—civil war in South Sudan alone has now produced more than 1.7 million refugees since 2013.  Even within African countries, an estimated 12.4 million are internally displaced.  Governments involved in conflict and their neighbors are faced with providing services to affected populations, but while shelter and medicine are usually provided, nutrition too often suffers – both for refugee populations and citizens within these countries. 

     Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04), Chairman of the House panel on Africa, called a Congressional-Diplomatic briefing to examine this situation and suggest strategies for overcoming deficiencies in nutrition in conflict in and around conflict zones. He will be joined by the Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, the Honorable Tony Hall, the Assistant to the USAID Administrator and Deputy Coordinator for Development for Feed the Future, Beth Dunford and two African Abmassadors, H.E. Wilson Mutagaywa Masilingi of the United Republic of Tanzania and H.E. Daouda Diabate of the Republic of Cote D’Ivoire.

Who:              
Chairman Smith (NJ-04)
Chairman of the House panel on Africa and Global Human Rights

The Honorable Tony Hall
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture

Beth Dunford
Assistant to the USAID Administrator and Deputy Coordinator for Development for Feed the Future

H.E. Wilson Mutagaywa Masilingi
Ambassador of the United Republic of Tanzania

H.E. Daouda Diabate
Ambassador of the Republic of Cote D’Ivoire

What:              Congressional Diplomatic Briefing on Nutrition in Areas of Conflict

When:             Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 3:00 PM

Where:            Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2255 (second floor)

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