Sudan, Nov. 19 -- Myriam Laaroussi, emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), spoke on the public radio program Here & Now on November 18 from Tawila, Sudan, where MSF teams are treating people who fled mass violence in the city of El Fasher in recent weeks.

A transcript of her remarks, edited for clarity, can be found below, and the audio can be found online here.

In terms of malnutrition, what we see is that mostly all the children under 5 are indeed malnourished, either severely or moderately, but they also suffered from a lack of food when they were inside of El Fasher for a year and a half at least, plus of course, the lack of access to food when they managed to flee El Fasher to the camp of ...