In Madagascar, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are witnessing an alarming rate of malnutrition in southeastern districts where families are dealing with a triple crisis of food insecurity, malaria, and extreme weather events. Between January and April over 1,200 children under five years old suffering from severe acute malnutrition were admitted to […]
Read More… from Madagascar: Struggling to survive a triple crisis
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) analysis of January 2023 shows that more than a quarter of the […]
Read More… from Madagascar: malnutrition spikes in the wake of climate shocks
Tropical Cyclone Batsirai hit Madagascar on February 5, 2022. According to the National Risk and Disaster Management Office (BNGRC), the initial toll amounts to 94 deaths and 116,000 people affected, but these figures are provisional since many areas are still inaccessible. […]
Read More… from Madagascar: Ongoing assessments after Cyclone Batsirai
Between February 5 and 22, 2022, cyclones Batsirai and Emnati hit the east coast of Madagascar, destroying numerous healthcare centres. More than 150,000 people have been affected by these cyclones. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency teams are struggling to reach isolated rural areas where people have very limited access to healthcare and other essential services. It […]
Read More… from Madagascar: People in Mananjary cut off from healthcare after two cyclones
People in southern Madagascar are experiencing an exceptionally acute food and nutrition crisis that is leaving thousands of children severely ill and pushing entire families into extreme poverty. Since March 2021, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency teams have been setting up more and more mobile clinics to deliver humanitarian and medical assistance in […]
Read More… from Madagascar: MSF steps up response to nutrition crisis in Grand Sud
An immediate and massive increase in food aid is urgently needed for people in southern Madagascar, says international medical organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), whose teams in the region are witnessing an exceptionally severe malnutrition crisis which in some places borders on famine. “We’re seeing totally destitute people who have literally nothing to […]