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Nigeria: Cooking classes help reduce child malnutrition

Since April 2024, Médecins Sans Frontières supported healthcare facilities in North-West and North-East Nigeria are recording unprecedented surges in admissions for acute malnutrition among children. While struggling to provide...

Ethiopia: A comprehensive community-centered approach in combating measles

In the districts of Sidama, Central, and South Ethiopia, access to healthcare is often challenging, exacerbated by various health emergencies such as communicable disease...

Conflict and climate change in West Africa require solutions to restore people’s right to aid and protection

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is calling for innovative solutions to restore the right to aid and protection for millions of people in Burkina...

African leaders urge continent to strengthen political will toward achieving continental nutrition targets

Heads of African Union member states have called for more commitment and accountability in Africa’s effort to achieve continental and global goals for nutrition...

Sixth failed rainy season spells further disaster and loss of life in Somalia, warns the International Rescue Committee

With the April- May rains in Somalia this year expected to be below normal for the sixth consecutive season, the number of households affected...

Rockefeller Foundation and WFP initiative seeks to strengthen school meals for millions of children

The United Nations World Food Programme (UN WFP) welcomes a US$ 10.7 million grant from The Rockefeller Foundation to help vulnerable children get better...

Tough months ahead in Ethiopia as rains fail for the fifth season in a row, millions in need of urgent food assistance

Back-to-back droughts caused by five failed rainy seasons have left 12 million Ethiopians facing hunger as conflict and forced displacement exacerbate the hunger crisis in the...

Women and girls in Somalia face critical life-threating drought and conflict situations

Somalia experienced a devastating drought in 2022, affecting nearly half of its entire population, or approximately 7.8 million people. Currently, around 7.1 million people are...

Médecins Sans Frontières’ efforts in treating people across Ethiopia

More than 22 million people were estimated to need humanitarian assistance in Ethiopia in 2022. Many faced the tragic consequences of conflict, particularly communities...

Increase in cholera cases, outbreak of measles in Kenya’s refugee camps straining health resources, IRC warns

At least three refugees have lost their lives and 504 others treated for acute dehydration following an outbreak of Cholera diseases at Hagadera in...

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