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The population of the Kivu provinces in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is fighting to survive, not only against the bullets flying in the latest peak of this long-running conflict but also against the vacuum of infrastructure and health...

The population of the Kivu provinces in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is fighting to survive, not only against the bullets flying in the latest peak of this long-running conflict but also against the vacuum of infrastructure and health resources. Thousands of families have sought safe shelter in the lakeside towns of Minova and Kalungu in South Kivu.

Photo: © Emily Lynch/MSF

Chad: Villages Organize Themselves Against Malnutrition Mahamad Adam stands proudly in front of the store under his charge. It’s a single room between four walls of dried mud and eaves made of cut branches that provide a little shade. Inside are...

Chad: Villages Organize Themselves Against Malnutrition

Mahamad Adam stands proudly in front of the store under his charge. It’s a single room between four walls of dried mud and eaves made of cut branches that provide a little shade. Inside are stocks of enriched peanut paste, a product that has proven to be effective for tackling child malnutrition.

Adam is a community health agent who spends several hours each week looking for and prescribing the precious substance to children with severe acute malnutrition in his village of Michetire and the surrounding area, some 100 kilometers [60 miles] north of N’Djamena, the capital. He is one of roughly 10 community health agents in western Chad’s Hadjer Lamis region, part of a system established by MSF in collaboration with the country’s Ministry of Health.

MSF is now trying to convince the inhabitants to directly support the community health agents who, until now, have received millet, sorghum or oil from MSF in return for their service, but no money. “To make the system sustainable, the communities must organize themselves and look after the agents,” said Ibrahim Halidou, who is in charge of external activities for MSF.
Photo: Chad 2011 © Natacha Buhler

A malnourished child and his mother sit in MSF’s intensive therapeutic feeding center (ITFC) in Massakory.

Burkina Faso: Assistance to Refugees from Mali in the North In the wake of violent clashes between Mali’s army and Tuareg rebels, nearly 20,000 Malians have fled their country and taken refuge in northern Burkina Faso. Most of the refugees are...

Burkina Faso: Assistance to Refugees from Mali in the North

In the wake of violent clashes between Mali’s army and Tuareg rebels, nearly 20,000 Malians have fled their country and taken refuge in northern Burkina Faso. Most of the refugees are gathered in Oudalan, Seno and Soum Provinces. Doctors Without Borders is distributing water and food and assessing basic health care needs in the Mentao camp, which is near Djibo and which is now hosting 3,000 people, up from 1,000 people three weeks ago.

“There has been a significant increase in the refugee population, and we are expecting to have 5,000 to 10,000 people in this camp in the coming weeks,” says Jean Hereu, MSF’s head of mission in Burkina Faso.

MSF is distributing 50 cubic metres of water per day in Mentao. The teams are also providing food, having initially donated five tons of rice, red beans and oil, with more to come pending the start of an emergency response by the World Food Program (WFP). In the coming days, the teams will assess the medical needs of the refugees with Burkina Faso’s Ministry of Health.

Photo:Burkina Faso © 2012 MSF
MSF carried out a food distribution for Malian refugees in the Mentao camp in northern Burkina Faso.