The baby lies with his eyes closed, his fleecy blanket a riot of reds, pinks and greens. On his nose a sticking plaster holds the tubes in place that run into the tiny nostrils, feeding him a milk solution that should help him regain his strength. His mother watches him intently from a nearby chair...
A 41 per cent of people in Central African Republic (CAR) do not have enough food, according to a United Nations report in 2023. Between October 2022 and August 2023, it was estimated that nearly 298,000 children aged 0-59 months and more than 140,600 pregnant and breastfeeding women suffered from...
In recent weeks, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) inpatient facilities in northern Nigeria have recorded an extraordinary increase in admissions of severely malnourished children with life-threatening complications, with two times more admissions than last year in some locations. This is horrifying...
The following statement from Dr Christos Christou, International President, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), outlines the dire situation for people caught up in the war in Sudan ahead of the first anniversary of the start of the conflict: Sudan is one of the worst crises the world has seen for...
MSF calls for urgent, mass mobilisation of international community to save lives A rapid nutrition and mortality assessment carried out by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reveals that a catastrophic situation has unfolded in Zamzam camp, North Darfur, since the conflict in Sudan began in April 2023...
Humanitarian organisations must urgently scale up their response to ease the difficulties faced by people fleeing the conflict from Sudan to Upper Nile state in South Sudan, says Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders (MSF). Thousands of returnees have been arriving sick and exhausted at...
As malnutrition rates surge beyond emergency levels in many areas of Ethiopia, Médecins Sans Frontières calls for the immediate resumption of food distributions which were suspended across Ethiopia in early June 2023. More than 20 million people in Ethiopia rely heavily on food assistance,...
Cuts to the food rations received by around one million Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar district, Bangladesh, will increase their risk of malnutrition and have a serious impact on their health, says international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Citing...
An alarming situation is unfolding in southeast Madagascar, where malnutrition is on the rise in rural communities. People in the southeastern Ikongo district face acute food shortages after harvests were destroyed in last year’s cyclones. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)...
Hospital admissions of children suffering from severe malnutrition have spiked in Dagahaley, one of three refugee camps in the Dadaab refugee complex, amid worsening humanitarian conditions in the overcrowded camps, says Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). In 2022, MSF treated a record 12,007 patients...
