Zamfara | Health Deteriorates After Episodes of Violence

“I have been living here for two years. My family and I left our village because we feared armed men may attack it again. To make some living I make clothes for people in the camp”. Says Talatu, who is displaced and lives in Emir Palace Camp.

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Zamfara: Health Deteriorates After Latest Episodes of Violence

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB80651

Date taken / Date Recorded 26/04/2021 4:41 PM

Country Nigeria

Detailed location Anka | Zamfara State

Commissioning section MSF-NETHERLANDS

Photographer / videographer / producer Ghada Safaan

Copyright Ghada Safaan/MSF

Usage Rights (MSF) External Media, MSF Fundraising, MSF Publications, Social Media

Formal Consent Copy available yes

Project section Borno State

Editor's rating ★★★★ (E)

Maximum Size 6000px × 4000px 5.82 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist The increased violence by rogue armed groups (so-called bandits), has over the past two years forced villagers to desert their farms and grazing lands and be displaced in towns of Zamfara state where MSF teams work, or be stuck in villages with difficulty to travel the insecure roads to seek support.
As a result, the humanitarian and health situation in Zamfara has reached a critical crisis stage due to food shortage and interruption of health services. MSF teams in Zamfara are seeing an alarmingly high number of children with severe acute malnutrition, measles, malaria and watery diarrhea in the hospitals that MSF teams are running in Zamfara State; and they keep presenting in an advanced condition to our hospitals every day.
MSF is one of the very few organizations working in the Northwest of Nigeria. The scarcity of aid organizations in the area is leaving tremendous humanitarian unmet and urgent needs. MSF has worked in in Anka, since 2010 and, since 2019, is responding to the health and humanitarian needs in Shinkafi and Zurmi, also in Zamfara state, supporting hospitals there.

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