The distressing daily experience of the MSF team in Batil refugee camp is echoed in the just-released results of a nutrition and retrospective mortality survey conducted in the camp at the end of July. Tragically, some of the refugees whose family members had died before they reached Batil camp...
New epidemiological data from two refugee camps in South Sudan show mortality and malnutrition rates soaring above emergency thresholds, announced Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). More than 170,000 refugees have made the harrowing journey across the border to escape conflict and food insecurity in...
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Close to 500 people a day are arriving at the camp in Yida, South Sudan. The UNHCR reports a total of 63,500 refugees in an already overcrowded camp originally intended for 15,000 people. Having walked for days, and sometimes weeks, across the Nuba Mountains fleeing conflict and food insecurity in...
South Sudan: Jamam refugee camp under water, MSF warns crisis worsening Preliminary studies reveal mortality rates nearly double the emergency threshold in a refugee camp in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State, currently home to a quarter of roughly 120,000 refugees who have fled Sudan’s Blue Nile State...
‘There are solutions for all these problems. It’s just that more needs to be done, fast.’ Nurse Chiara BURZIO is working at Médecins Sans Frontières’s field hospital in Jamam refugee camp in Maban county, Upper Nile State, South Sudan. I’ve just returned from three hours at the temporary refugee...
MSF warns of dire medical needs in overcrowded and under-prepared refugee camps Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns of dire medical consequences as tens of thousands of new refugees crossing from Sudan into South Sudan find refugee camps full and unable to provide the basic life-sustaining...
