Every year, millions of children around the world suffer from malnutrition — a crisis that is all too visible in their frail bodies and tired eyes. But what is often less visible, yet just as devastating, are the psychological wounds that malnutrition inflicts on both children and their caregivers. Over the years, the upward surge […]
Read More… from Nigeria: Addressing mental health and malnutrition together
Unprecedented numbers of malnourished children in need of lifesaving treatment are being brought to therapeutic feeding centres run by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s Borno state, in northeast Nigeria. MSF is warning of an impending catastrophe if immediate action is not taken. The number of admissions since the start of […]
As the malnutrition crisis in northwest Nigeria continues at catastrophic levels, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling on the humanitarian community to respond to the emergency needs of people in the region, and for northwest Nigeria to be included in the UN’s humanitarian response plan, enabling a broader and more sustained response. Since the beginning of 2022, […]
Read More… from UN must recognize ‘critical emergency’ malnutrition crisis in northwest Nigeria
A growing, yet largely ignored, malnutrition crisis is unfolding in northwest Nigeria, which threatens the lives of tens of thousands of children, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today. Since January, MSF teams, working in partnership with Nigerian health authorities in five northwestern states, have already treated more than 50,000 children with acute malnutrition, […]
MSF is calling for an urgent humanitarian response for people in the region, who are desperately short of food, drinking water, shelter, protection and basic services, including healthcare.
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Read More… from Nigeria: Zamfara state gripped by humanitarian crisis as violence escalates
“We have to be grateful that we now have water, but we don’t usually have enough water when we enter the dry and hot season,” says Adama. She was forced from her home by the violence that has spread throughout Borno state, in northeast Nigeria. Adama now lives in a camp for displaced people in […]
Read More… from Pulka, Borno state: Water is the source of life and disease
Nigeria has some of the highest number of deaths from malaria worldwide. Usually, peak malaria season takes place during the rainy season from August to mid-October, when mosquitoes breed, after which patient numbers begin to decrease. This year, however, medical teams from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) working in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state have witnessed […]
Read More… from Nigeria: Long malaria season claims lives in Borno
Gwoza, a garrison town in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, is home to 60,000 people, many of them displaced from their homes elsewhere by the conflict. Living conditions are difficult, there is little humanitarian aid, and frequent clashes take place between the military and armed groups. Many people in Gwoza have witnessed acts of violence or […]
Read More… from Borno state, Nigeria: Difficult living conditions and frequent clashes
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is horrified to hear the news of the killings of five humanitarian aid workers in northeast Nigeria. The aid workers who came from Action Against Hunger, the Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), International Rescue Committee, Reach International and a security guard protecting humanitarian facilities, were abducted last month. […]
Read More… from MSF condemns the killing of five aid workers in northeast Nigera
Interview with Luis Eguiluz, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Head of Mission in Nigeria since 2017 on the ongoing humantiarian crisis inthe northeast of the country. You arrived in Nigeria in September 2017; do you think the situation for the population in Borno has improved since then? After more than 10 years of conflict […]
Read More… from Northeast Nigeria: ‘The conflict is intensifying and the needs are massive’