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electricsheepafrica/africa-cameroon-sahel-humanitarian-needs-overview-c397802e

Sahel : Humanitarian Needs Overview | Africa (Cameroon official open data) 88 rows - 1 Africa country - 2016-2017 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa TL;DR This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Cameroon as ML-ready Parquet. The source file is the provenance boundary; all usable indicators or tabular columns from the resource stay together in this repo. About the source Source: Sahel : Humanitarian Needs Overview Publisher:… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-cameroon-sahel-humanitarian-needs-overview-c397802e.

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Sahel : Humanitarian Needs Overview | Africa (Cameroon official open data)

88 rows - 1 Africa country - 2016-2017 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Cameroon as ML-ready Parquet. The source file is the provenance boundary; all usable indicators or tabular columns from the resource stay together in this repo.

About the source

—Source: Sahel : Humanitarian Needs Overview
—Publisher: OCHA West and Central Africa (ROWCA)
—Resource: HNO 2017 Sahel-Lake Chad Nutrition as of 25_11_2016.csv
—Format: CSV
—License: CC BY 4.0
—Packaging mode: tabular_resource

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
`CMR`	88	2016	2017	`Cameroon`

Indicators or Resource Contents

—This source file is packaged as a normalized tabular resource.

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
`source_record_id`	`string`	Stable row identifier for tabular resources.	`487e329d-3959-49bf-8e12-2675be7008ae:0`
`country_iso3`	`category`	ISO3 country code.	`CMR`
`country_name`	`category`	Country name.	`Cameroon`
`country`	`string`	Source column.	`#country`
`admin1`	`string`	Source column.	`#adm1`
`sam`	`float64`	Source column.	``
`source_period_start_year`	`Int64`	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	`2016`
`source_period_end_year`	`Int64`	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	`2017`
`source_period_label`	`category`	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	`2016-2017`
`source_provider`	`category`	Publishing organization.	`OCHA West and Central Africa (ROWCA)`
`source_dataset`	`category`	Source package title.	`Sahel : Humanitarian Needs Overview`
`source_resource`	`category`	Source resource title.	`HNO 2017 Sahel-Lake Chad Nutrition as of 25_11_2016.csv`
`source_package_id`	`category`	CKAN package UUID.	`47f6ef46-500f-421a-9fa2-fefd93facf95`
`source_resource_id`	`category`	CKAN resource UUID.	`487e329d-3959-49bf-8e12-2675be7008ae`
`source_url`	`category`	Original source resource URL.	`https://data.humdata.org/dataset/47f6ef46-500f-421a-9fa2-fefd93facf95/re`
`license_id`	`category`	Source license identifier.	`cc-by`
`retrieved_at`	`category`	UTC retrieval timestamp.	`2026-08-25T16:58:39Z`

Usage

python

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-cameroon-sahel-humanitarian-needs-overview-c397802e")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

python

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "CMR"]

Work with indicators

python

if "indicator_id" in df.columns:
    print(df["indicator_id"].value_counts().head())
    sample = df.sort_values([c for c in ["indicator_id", "year"] if c in df.columns])

Citation

bibtex

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_cameroon_sahel_humanitarian_needs_overview_c397802e_2017,
  title        = {Sahel : Humanitarian Needs Overview | Africa (Cameroon official open data)},
  author       = {OCHA West and Central Africa (ROWCA)},
  year         = {2017},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/sahel-humanitarian-needs-overview},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-cameroon-sahel-humanitarian-needs-overview-c397802e}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data (c) OCHA West and Central Africa (ROWCA). When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Africa repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Africa is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Africa on Hugging Face. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica

Provenance: ingested 2026-08-25 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/47f6ef46-500f-421a-9fa2-fefd93facf95/resource/487e329d-3959-49bf-8e12-2675be7008ae/download/hno-2017-sahel-lake-chad-nutrition-as-of-25112016.csv