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The results of a nutrition screening carried out by the Sudanese health authorities and Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) earlier this month in Zamzam camp, North Darfur, indicate a catastrophic nutritional situation. “The malnutrition rates found during the screening are massive and likely some of the worst in the world currently,” said Claudine Mayer, MSF emergency medical manager.
MSF urges the UN and international stakeholders involved in negotiating broader humanitarian access to consider all options to quickly deliver food and essential supplies in the area, including by airdrops. “We’re running out of time,” said Michel Olivier Lacharité, head of emergency operations for MSF. “We are talking about thousands of children who will die over the next few weeks without access to adequate treatment and urgent solutions to allow humanitarian aid and essential goods to reach Zamzam.”
Zamzam camp is estimated to host between 300,000 and 500,000 people, many of them displaced repeatedly by the war that has been raging since April 2023. In El Fasher, where many of these displaced people used to live, only one hospital remains partially functioning after the others were damaged or destroyed in the conflict. Read the full story >> |
