Niger

Nutritional
crises are a chronic problem in Niger, but a particularly poor harvest in 2009
made the 2010 crisis far worse. Global...

 Niger 2010 © Yann Libessart / MSF

There is a growing consensus that we’re witnessing the first stirrings of the long predicted and much discussed food crisis that has occupied...

Mothers leaving the CRENAS weith their weekly rations. © Karine Klein

Last year MSF treated 45,000 kids in our nutritional programmes in this region of Niger alone. Moustapha and his mother’s story is just one of...

Very occasionally I get to do something a little different from my usual work at the CRENI. My brief today was to spend the day visiting a...

I have rarely had the pleasure of meeting , not to mind working, closely every day with someone so charming and compassionate, big-smiling...

Fergus is my name. I’m Irish and tall, have light brown hair going to blond (or grey depending on the light!) and more than my share of freckles....

Since late January, nearly
160,000 Malians have fled their country for camps in Burkina
Faso, Mauritania
and Niger.

Country Year © Author/MSF

The annual "hunger season" seems likely to be particularly serious in the north-west African countries of the Sahel region this year, and some...

Niger 2012 © Julie Remy

MSF is working in the Tillabéry region of Niger, where violence has forced 10,000 people to flee from neighbouring Mali.

Country Year © Author/MSF

A promising new vaccine that could prevent future outbreaks of the deadliest form of meningitis in Africa will be...

© Claude Mahoudeau/MSF
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