Escalating numbers of Rohingya people with violence-related injuries have crossed the border into Bangladesh over the past week, indicating the worsening humanitarian crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.

In the town of Baidoa, in south-west Somalia, civil war, lack of resources and the collapse of the health system are having a serious impact on the health of women and children. Pregnant women are finding it increasingly difficult to access care, leading to delays in treatment and avoidable deaths.

In Bauchi state, like other states in northern Nigeria, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are witnessing an unprecedent surge in malnutrition cases and are rapidly scaling up our medical response. As well as increasing bed capacity at the inpatient therapeutic feeding centre (ITFC) in Ganjuwa LGA, we are launching a community-integrated program to identify and train people in the community to diagnose and treat malnutrition at an early stage.