Since late 2014, the region of Diffa in southern Niger has been caught in armed conflict. Two-hundred and fifty-thousand people have been forced out of their homes, two thirds of them children. Fighting, flight and loss have had a devastating impact on their lives. Halisa, Mohammed, Asan, Aïcha,...
An innovative new vaccine which could prevent large numbers of children from dying of diarrhoea in sub-Saharan Africa has been successfully trialled in Niger, announced Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders on 23 March. Rotavirus infection is the leading cause of severe diarrhoea...
With simultaneous epidemics of meningitis and measles in Niger, teams from Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) have been supporting the Ministry of Health in its efforts to bring them under control, while taking steps to prevent cholera spreading from neighbouring Nigeria. The...
Diseases must be tackled together in order to pre-empt another crisis The number of severely malnourished children expected to be treated in the Sahel region in 2013 amounts to 1.4 million; 1 out of 5 children in Niger. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has seen an increase in the number of...
Pascual Caballero is a 36-year-old paediatrician from Malaga that has just landed in Madaoua, a small town in the centre of Niger. In this area, as on other six across the country, MSF is working to prevent and treat child malnutrition. The programme has a two-fold objective. On the one hand, MSF...
Habiba ISMAEL has dark rings under her eyes and looks tired. She has agreed to open the door of her house in Agadez, Niger, to tell Médecins Sans Frontières（MSF） the story of her journey from Libya. Along with several hundred immigrants fleeing the bombing, her experience has not been a happy one...
MSF Niger study reinforces that high-quality nutritious foods should be a pillar in global fight against childhood mortality; G8 countries should ensure that appropriate foods reach vulnerable children Mortality rates were observed to be 50 percent lower among a large group of young children in the...
Despite the large-scale response to the nutritional crisis from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and many other organisations, tens of thousands of children suffered from malnutrition in Niger in 2010. In spite of better harvests, 2011 also looks set to be a critical year. Around a hundred years ago...
Dosso, Niger It is almost midday. The air is dry and rasping. By the side of the road, sheltering under some branches, five women patiently await the arrival of the last people to vaccinate. We are in Tourobon, a village in the Dosso district, and it is the last day of the vaccination campaign...
