Médecins Sans Frontières: Alarming rates of malnutrition among displaced people in southern Ethiopia
“Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is concerned for the welfare of tens of thousands of vulnerable internally displaced people (IDPs) in southern Ethiopia, following an assessment that revealed alarming findings about their nutritional status, poor living conditions, and limited availability of safe drinking water. In response, MSF has launched an emergency intervention in the Gedeo area of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR), southern Ethiopia, and is calling on humanitarian agencies to urgently scale up their support for the IDPs in the numerous camps in the area…” (4/17).