By now, you may have watched Oxfam Australia’s Chee Chee Leung’s first video update from West Africa, which she filed soon after touching down in Dakar, Senegal.

She has since moved on to Niamey, Niger, where the food crisis is hitting local communities hard. In this dispatch, she explains why emergency relief is needed right now, and describes how Oxfam is working to support those worst affected by the crisis.

Find out more about our work in West and Central Africa.