Most official movement restrictions lifted, trade flows and market functioning slowly improve
KEY MESSAGES
Market functioning and trade flows are still below-normal but are slowly improving across the region compared to previous months due to the lifting of official movement restrictions (Liberia), district-level quarantines (Sierra Leone), and official border closures (across the region, except for Liberia).
Despite improving market functioning, household incomes from many typical sources remain below average, causing household purchasing power to remain atypically weak and limiting food access for poor households reliant on market purchases to meet basic needs. As food stocks from recent harvests deplete, the population facing Stressed (IPC Phase 2) and Crisis (IPC Phase 3) food security outcomes is expected to increase in the coming months.
