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Nigeria : A year after, Hope and Healing in Katsina
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.
Women join forces to tackle malnutrition in Cameroon
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.
Lean season:Food insecurity in Cameroon
What is the lean season in Cameroon?
Known as one of the most difficult periods for populations living on agriculture, the lean season is characterized by insufficient food resources. It marks the period before the first harvests, when produce from previous harvests is insufficient to cover household food needs. As a result, foodstuffs become scarce and prices rise on the market, increasing the population’s vulnerability to food insecurity. In Cameroon’s Far North region, where agriculture accounts for around 55% of the population’s activities, over 2.5 million people are acutely food and nutritionally insecure.
Medical and psychosocial support for displaced persons in Ansongo, Mali
Since December 2023, Première Urgence Internationale has been working with displaced persons at the Cap d’Ansongo site to meet their urgent needs in the health and psychosocial support sectors.
CHRONICLES FROM THE FIELD – Special issue #7
The Première Urgence Internationale teams remain mobilized on behalf of the most vulnerable civilians, despite the difficult conditions. Discover our emergency actions during the conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine and Sudan, as well as our emergency responses to natural disasters in Libya and Syria. Find out about our projects in Lebanon to advance inclusion and accessibility in healthcare, housing rehabilitation, and in the teams
Libya: emergency aid for victims of storm Daniel
The passage of storm Daniel on 10 September 2023 caused devastating flooding in north-east Libya. The violence of this climatic phenomenon caused the Al-Bilad and Abu Mansour dams in the city of Derna to burst. More than 30 million cubic metres of water poured into the city, causing enormous material and human damage.
LIBYA EMERGENCY: 80% of Al-Bayyadah’s infrastructure destroyed
Storm Daniel caused extensive damage in eastern Libya. Since September 11, Première Urgence Internationale teams have been mobilized to assess needs and provide a humanitarian response to those who survived the disaster.
Activity Report of 2022
Première Urgence Internationale supports 6 million people in 25 countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and South America.
Its aim is to provide a comprehensive response to all the basic needs of populations affected by emergency crises, enabling them to regain their autonomy and dignity.
In 2022, 207 projects were carried out, 4 exploratory missions, and the association’s overall budget was 125.1 million euros, with 93.8% of resources in the field.
La Chronique N°142 – June 2023
Read about Première Urgence Internationale’s humanitarian intervention in chronic or protracted crises in our new Chronique, with a focus on Syria, where our teams have been present since 2008, honoring their humanitarian commitment to serve civilian populations despite all the challenges they encounter on a daily basis. The weight of international sanctions, the decrease in funding and the repeated shocks leave no respite for the population, who pay a heavy price for this situation. Find out more about our presence in Afghanistan for over 40 years, where humanitarian needs are still there and the challenge is all the greater: in 2023, two out of every three people in Afghanistan will depend on humanitarian aid to survive.
Also, Boris Martin, Editor-in-Chief of Alternatives Humanitaires magazine,reflects on the significant changes that humanitarian action has undergone in the past 4 decades.
Burkina Faso: “When I gave birth to my daughter, there was no problem. She was in great shape and everyone envied her”.
Kadi, a mother of three, lives in Fada, Burkina Faso, with her two boys and a daughter. Arcela, who will be 18 months old in January 2023, suffers from severe acute malnutrition with complications. At the time of the interview, she had been in hospital for a month at the Centre for Nutritional Recovery and Education (CREN) at the Fada Regional Hospital (CHR).
