MSF scaled up medical and humanitarian support around the South Africa-Zimbabwe border after anti-migrant violence caused injuries, trauma and barriers to care. The response links emergency treatment with mental-health and protection referrals.
Outbreaks of African Migratory Locust (AML) are threatening the food security and livelihoods of millions of people in Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) warned today at the launch of an emergency response effort to control the swarms. Around 7 million people in the four affected…