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MSF teams are witnessing alarming rates of malnutrition in both children and adults fleeing El Fasher. |
As starving people continue fleeing the atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in El Fasher, capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is providing urgent care to those who have reached the town of Tawila. There, our teams are witnessing extreme levels of acute malnutrition among arrivals.
Life has become unbearable in El Fasher, survivors tell our teams. People report having had no access to food, with community kitchens shut down, humanitarian aid blocked, and markets shelled and depleted.
“We were so hungry we began eating ambaz [animal feed],” a displaced woman told MSF in North Darfur.
Beyond El Fasher, MSF teams across Sudan have seen a widespread deterioration in children’s nutritional status in recent months. The crisis is being fueled by overlapping factors, including inadequate food, disease, insecurity, lack of livelihoods, and unsafe living conditions.
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