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Highlights

• WFP continued to provide seasonal assistance and emergency support to 150,000 food-insecure people and to displaced households and host communities affected by conflict.

• A national assessment on food and nutrition security carried out in September 2016 reveals that 25 percent of the Malian population is food-insecure, of which 4 percent is severely food-insecure. There are, however, large pockets of food-insecurity in Gao, Timbuktu, Mopti Segou and Kayes where some segments of the population are between 40 to 70 percent food insecure.

Operational Updates

• The September 2016 Standardized Monitoring and Assessment of Relief and Transitions (SMART) survey on global acute malnutrition estimated that 10.6 percent of children suffer from acute malnutrition—which is above the World Health Organization’s Global Acute Malnutrition threshold of 10 percent and rates in Gao and Timbuktu region are at 14.8 and 14.3 percent, respectively.

• In total, WFP assisted 315,605 people in November, as compared to 340,641 in October 2016, through food and voucher distributions, malnutrition treatment activities and resilience-building interventions. The decrease in the number of people assisted is related to the downscaling of food distribution activities at the end of the lean season.

• While seasonal assistance ended, WFP still targeted 150,000 people affected by conflict, flooding and facing high food insecurity. In addition, 30,750 children between 6-23 months and 16,310 pregnant and nursing women received nutrition support to prevent malnutrition.