Déclarée le 11 mai par les autorités sanitaires, l’épidémie de choléra qui sévit actuellement dans le nord du Niger a déjà touché plus de 240 personnes. Toutes ont été prises en charge par les équipes MSF. Six décès sont à déplorer. MSF a ouvert deux centres de traitement du choléra (CTC) dans les localités de Mangaïzé et Ayorou, à respectivement 150 et 200 kilomètres au nord de Niamey, la capitale nigérienne. Cette région qui accueille de nombreux réfugiés maliens avait déjà été touchée par le choléra l’an dernier.

Cholera has broken out in northern Niger, in an area now inhabited by large numbers of Malian refugees who fled conflict in their homeland.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has treated all of the nearly 250 people affected by the cholera outbreak in northern Niger that was declared by the country’s health authorities on May 11. MSF has also opened two cholera treatment centers in the regions of Mangaïzé and Ayorou, north of the capital, Niamey. Six people have died in the outbreak thus far, however.

Sudanese refugees are stranded at the centre of complex political agendas that threaten to worsen their dire situation. Yida camp hosts about 75,000 people, a five-fold increase in just over a year.

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The Nutrition situation in South Sudan has remained precarious over the years owing to chronic food insecurity. The populations displaced from South Kordofan and Blue Nile states from 2011 owing to conflict, were installed into camps in the Maban county and high levels of malnutrition among the children was described as a humanitarian crisis. A survey conducted by Médecins sans Frontières -Belgium (MSF-B) in Batil camps subsequently in August 2012, revealed Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) rate of 39.8%.

Serge St-Louis just returned from nine months as Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) head of mission in the Central African Republic (CAR). He was there in late 2012, when Seleka, a new coalition of Central African rebel groups, took control of several towns before finally entering Bangui, the capital, in late March. Here, he updates us on the post-conflict situation, including the issues and outlook for the country, its health care system, and MSF.

Therapeutic medical food and hospital beds were looted and purposeful damage done to the infrastructure, rendering the hospital unusable until major repair work has been conducted.

London, 16 May 2013 – Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is treating survivors of an attack on Mpeti in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The village, which is home to around one thousand people, was attacked by men armed with bayonets, machetes and wooden clubs on Tuesday morning.

Among the three wounded being treated at Mweso hospital some 40 km away are two young children, one of whom was orphaned in the attack. The mother and 18 month old baby brother of the other child were also killed.

Parcourir les pistes boueuses de la forêt tropicale en moto et naviguer sur des rivières en crue, en pirogue, en portant un réfrigérateur, un microscope et un générateur n'est pas une tâche facile. C'est pourtant le défi qu’ont relevé pour les quatre prochaines semaines le coordinateur de projet MSF Will Turner et son équipe ; une expédition vouée à tester 40 000 personnes contre la maladie du sommeil ou THA (trypanosomiase humaine africaine) dans les villages reculés de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC).

ISLAMABAD/NEW YORK, MAY 10 2013—Teams from the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), together with Ministry of Health staff, have treated more than 110 people for blast injuries from election-related violence in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas over the past four days, MSF said today.