Nutrition

• Nigeria : A year after, Hope and Healing in Katsina

  Published on 4 July 2024  |  News
  In the heart of Nigeria's Katsina State, the Mashi Local Government Area (LGA) has been grappling with a silent but deadly crisis: severe acute malnutrition. This life-threatening condition has left many children under five in dire need of medical and nutritional support.  

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• Women join forces to tackle malnutrition in Cameroon

  Published on 26 June 2024  |  News
  Due to extreme weather conditions and the complex security crisis, the Far North region suffers from one of the highest rates of chronic food deficit and acute malnutrition in the country.

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• “The war in Sudan must not become a forgotten crisis”, and yet…

  Published on 15 April 2024  |  Press
  The imperative used by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Stéphane Séjourné, last February is a reminder of the need not to look away from what could be one of the worst crises in recent history[1].

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• Sudan: When the community seizes the fight against malnutrition

  Published on 20 January 2023  |  News
  Acute and chronic malnutrition remains one of the major public health concerns in Sudan. To address emergency food and nutritional needs of families with children diagnosed with malnutrition in Gedaref, eastern Sudan, Première Urgence Internationale involves health volunteers from the community. Rogia is one of them.

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• Yemen: “Nutrition activities met an urgent need to my twin daughters and made my life easier”

  Published on 28 February 2022  |  News
  In Yemen, 66 percent of the population are estimated to need humanitarian assistance in 2021, according to the Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) analysis. Over 2.25 million cases of children aged 0 to 59 months, and more than a million pregnant and lactating women, were projected to suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021 (HNO, 2021).

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• Central African Republic: Strengthening Access to Health Care and Improving Food Security for Vulnerable Populations in Bamingui-Bangoran

  Published on 27 May 2021  |  News
  Since 2018, Première Urgence Internationale has been implementing a project to provide emergency medical-nutritional assistance and strengthen the primary and secondary health system in the Bamingui-Bangoran Prefecture, Central African Republic. An initiative made possible through the support of the European Union's Bêkou Fund.

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• In Chad, Première Urgence Internationale is training mothers to detect malnutrition in children

  Published on 2 July 2020  |  News
  In 2020, communities in Chad are still vulnerable to malnutrition. The challenging climate, limited access to water, poor crop production, and insufficient medical infrastructure have created a crisis situation to which the COVID-19 pandemic now also contributes. For two years, Première Urgence Internationale has been working in close cooperation with mothers and guardians to make diagnosis easier and to treat seriously ill children more quickly.

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• Yemen: Première Urgence Internationale expands activities to the South

  Published on 18 October 2019  |  News
  Première Urgence Internationale has been operating in Yemen since 2007. The NGO supports the primary health system in both governorates of Hudaydah and Raymah, which are notable, as is all of the country, for food insecurity and severe chronic malnutrition. Thanks to the support of the European Union, activities have been expanded to complementary health facilities in the governorate of Taizz, south of the country. 

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• Yemen: Help people to grow productive home gardens

  Published on 12 June 2019  |  News
  To address root causes of malnutrition in Yemen, and provide a longer-term response, Première Urgence Internationale leaded a nutrition project in the governorates of Hodeidah and Raymah. Objective: help the targeted households to establish their own productive gardens, and increase their preservation capacity.

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• Understanding the food and nutrition situation in North Korea

  Published on 22 January 2018  |  News
  Camille, engineer specialised in agricultural development, gives us keys toward a better understanding of North Korea's food and nutrition situation.

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