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In Ethiopia, Asiya Salih Mohammed and her family escaped the threat of conflict in the Afar region, and traveled on foot for more than a month in search of safety. When they arrived at a settlement for internally displaced people—it lacked even basic provisions like food, clean water, or shelter. 

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is witnessing a mounting humanitarian crisis fueled by conflict and drought in Ethiopia’s Afar Region. Asiya is one of about 600,000 people facing hunger and a dangerous lack of health care.

Since April, MSF has been increasing support to Dupti hospital which has become overwhelmed with ever-increasing patients. It is the only functioning referral hospital in the entire Afar region. The number of severely malnourished children seen at the hospital has more than tripled this year. Nearly two-thirds of those requiring hospitalization have come from displaced families. MSF teams are answering the call for urgent humanitarian assistance to address the malnutrition crisis as it continues to grow.

Learn more about the escalating nutritional crisis in Ethiopia for families like Asiya’s.

“What scares us most at this point is that we are only beginning to see the very tip of the iceberg, and already it is overwhelming,” said Raphael Veicht, MSF emergency coordinator in Addis Ababa. In Dupti Hospital, children are arriving after long journeys with little chance of survival due to malnourishment and other illnesses. 

We're responding to this compounding crisis and rushing to provide urgent aid where it’s needed. Here's how we're addressing malnutrition in Ethiopia's Afar region.



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