KEY MESSAGES
• Due to large household and trader stocks and a good flow of domestic and cross-border trade, food availability is still be ensured and most poor households are experiencing only Minimal (IPC Phase 1) food insecurity.
• However, some 5,000 poor farming households in wadi (dry riverbed) and oasis areas are still feeling the effects of the poor rainy season on their agropastoral output and incomes. These households are currently facing Stressed (IPC Phase 2) food insecurity.
• After a large influx of arrivals in February, refugee inflows into Mauritania have slowed. At the moment, the only negative effects of their presence are on the movement of people and goods in Bassikounou department. However the large concentration of workers and livestock in the southeast is expected to cause Stressed (IPC Phase 2) food insecurity in that area by the beginning of May.