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Malnutrition in Zamzam camp, El Fasher, North Darfur

Since April 2023, Darfur, the western region of Sudan, has been facing a major humanitarian crisis. Fighting has been widespread leading to massive population displacements – notably from West Darfur into Chad, where the accounts of refugees who have reached the MSF hospital over the last six months paint a picture of an unbearable spiral of violence, with looting, burning of homes, beatings, sexual violence, and massacres as a result of ethnically targeted violence

· The situation in North Darfur, by comparison, has been relatively calm in terms of violence. However, a rapid nutrition and mortality assessment carried out by MSF in Zamzam camp - ~15km south east of El Fasher, the state capital – reveals that a deadly situation has unfolded over the past nine months

· All emergency thresholds for malnutrition have been reached. Almost a quarter of children assessed in the camp were found to be suffering from acute malnutrition, with seven per cent having SAM (severe acute malnutrition) and being at immediate risk of death. , Among children aged six months to two years old, the figures were even more stark with nearly 40 per cent of this age group malnourished – 15 per cent with SAM.

· The emergency threshold for SAM, which indicates that urgent action must be taken, is two percent – indicating that a serious emergency situation is present in Zamzam camp.

· An immediate, coordinated and rapid scale-up of the humanitarian response is required to save lives and we are using this communications initiative to mobilise the UN and international NGOs who have been absent from North Darfur since they evacuated in April.

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Title Malnutrition in Zamzam camp, El Fasher, North Darfur

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Date taken / Date Recorded 30/01/2024 12:00 AM

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Date taken / Date Recorded 30/01/2024 12:00 AM