In September and October, MSF responded to severe flooding in Bihar state, in northern India. The organization worked in some of the districts most severely affected by the flooding, distributing essential items to flood survivors, providing basic healthcare, and carrying out vaccination campaigns...
Three months after Nigerien authorities suspended the activities of the French section of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the organization is calling for an immediate resumption of its nutritional operations in Maradi. "The situation in the field is very troubling," says Dr. Marie-Pierre ALLIÉ, the...
In Karamoja in eastern Uganda malnutrition is cyclical and chronic. But during the past months the situation has been worsening in many places. The population has no crops. They have nothing to eat in the coming period. There is no rain. So I am expecting the situation to be worse than what you are...
In Karamoja malnutrition is chronic, however this year the remote region of northeastern Uganda is suffering its worst drought in five years, creating a humanitarian crisis. The last two years saw back-to-back dry spells followed by unusually heavy rains. Rising food prices make what food is...
Five weeks after a series of hurricanes struck Haiti, people in the city of Gonaïves are still deprived of essential services. Since early October, families have been evicted from schools and churches where they had sought refuge after the storms destroyed their homes. With no alternative housing...
The kidnapping of 90 children in Kiliwa and Duru, two townships north of Dungu, by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has further inflamed an already conflict-ridden situation in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Populations caught up in the violence have no other...
"This year in Ethiopia there is a very serious nutritional crisis. There is a very bad situation, especially for the children, for the lack of food and many other factors that provoked this crisis. Since the beginning of May we have already taken in charge more than 60,000 children because of...
In the most volatile parts of Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) North Kivu province, violence has reached its highest levels in years, while assistance is hardly reaching those most in need, the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said on Monday. Hundreds of...
After decades of neglect and poor standards for nutrition programs, the international nutrition community has put forth a clear set of principles to reduce deaths in moderately malnourished children. These new standards could positively impact 55 million moderately malnourished children worldwide,...
MSF teams working in the country provide assistance to wounded and displaced in difficult security conditions The recent escalation in fighting in one of Mogadishu's most populated residential areas has resulted in a surge in the number of wounded and has, once again, displaced thousands of people...
