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The alarming levels of acute malnutrition recorded during the post-harvest season, combined with constrained access to treatment, raise serious concerns for children in the July-September lean season.

Overcrowded shelters, food shortages and strained health services are pushing IDPs to the brink. MSF is helping 3,700 people a week – an increase of 40% since before this wave of displacement began.

Material deprivation is a stark indicator of poverty and includes a lack of access to nutritious food, appropriate clothing, heating at home, and educational materials, among other essentials.

Fuel supplies have been entirely restricted from entering Gaza since Israeli authorities imposed a total siege on 2 March, putting the entire humanitarian response at risk of grinding to a halt.

Alarming 46 per cent rise in children diagnosed with malnutrition across five Darfur states underscores urgent need for access and aid across conflict-affected region.

Returnees, including pregnant women, mothers with infants and unaccompanied children, arrive with little more than they can carry. Many are in desperate need of medical care, food and shelter.

There is currently no possibility for a safe, dignified and sustainable return of Haitians who are abroad. If anything, their country is much more dangerous than the one they fled.

By end-May, nearly 300 million people needed urgent aid and protection. Conflicts and violence intensified in multiple countries while natural disasters wreaked havoc on the lives of millions.