Situation overview
The resumption of hostilities and the outbreak of violence and criminality observed in northern and central Mali in the second quarter of 2015 threaten the progress made to date in restoring the administration and public services. In addition to protection risks and population displacements related to this violence, hundreds of thousands of men, women and children continue to lack access to water, health care, food, livelihood and education. Approximately 102,000 people are displaced in Mali due to the conflict and 137,000 others are refugees in neighboring countries. Hundreds of thousands more have returned to the north where they need help for their social and economic reintegration. Moreover, across the country, about 15% of the population suffers from food insecurity (acute and moderate) and 13% of children suffer from acute malnutrition (which exceeds the WHO 10% alert threshold.)