While the number of persons fleeing intercommunal violence, armed groups’ activities, and military operations is rising in central and northern Mali, humanitarian agencies are unable to provide emergency relief to starving women and children after running out of funds.
“Instead of providing lifesaving aid, we are witnessing mothers forced to watch their children cry out of hunger, at the risk of dying. Mothers are begging us for food and help, and so we, the aid community, are now calling international actors to heed their call,†said Hassane Hamadou, Country Director for the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in Mali.
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