Help Malian Refugees Fleeing into the Sahel

Zoulfa and two of her children make do with a makeshift shelter. She is worried because her youngest child, just a few months old, has a fever but there is not enough medicine.

A refugee woman and her daughter in the Sinegodar refugee site. They fled their home in northern Mali in January due to the fighting.

A panoramic view of the refugee site at Fassala, in Niger, shows the critical need for stable, all-weather shelter for refugee families.

A Malian refugee woman waits with her children to receive relief items from UNHCR in Gaoudel, Ayorou district, northern Niger. She left her village in Mali early February, fleeing fighting between Tuareg rebels belonging to the MNLA and Malian government.

. A Malian refugee woman in Mangaize, northern Niger, anxiously thinks about her future. She fled the town of Menaka in northern Mali in January with her family due to insecurity.

UNHCR is distributing relief items like sleeping mats, kitchen sets, jerry cans and more. But as Malians continue to flee fighting, they cannot keep up with demand. More supplies must be airlifted as soon as possible.

UNHCR is distributing relief items like sleeping mats, kitchen sets, jerry cans and more. But as Malians continue to flee fighting, they cannot keep up with demand. More supplies must be airlifted as soon as possible.

A young Malian refugee girl is about to drink the unclean water she collected from a local well in Ferrerio site, northern Burkina Faso. UNHCR/H. Caux