Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reported on Monday that six children in the Samos migrant camp in Greece are suffering from acute malnutrition, spotlighting worsening humanitarian conditions in the EU-funded facility.
Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Monday it had identified the first cases of malnourished children in a migrant camp on the Greek island of Samos, which has been criticized by rights groups for dangerous living conditions.
MSF doctors have diagnosed six children from Syria and Afghanistan aged between six months to six years with acute malnutrition needing immediate help, it said.
While it could not say if their malnutrition was due to living in the camp, conditions there - including insufficient food and medical care - endangered their health, MSF said.
"No child should suffer from malnutrition due to systemic neglect," said Christina Psarra, director general of MSF Greece, calling for immediate action and adding that about a quarter of the camp's residents were children.
The Greek migration ministry said it would release a statement later on Monday.
On the forefront of Europe's 2015-16 migration crisis, Greece saw a surge in arrivals in 2024, according to U.N. data. This year, nearly a third of arrivals to southern Europe from the Middle East and Africa were to Greece.
The EU-funded Samos camp, a sprawling, heavily-surveilled facility surrounded by barbed wire, was opened by the government in 2021 to replace the former camp of Vathy - once an overcrowded, rat-infested tent city of 7,000 people.
The six malnourished children arrived this year, MSF said.
Rights group Amnesty International has called conditions at Samos "inhumane and degrading" during periods of overcrowding, with water shortages and a lack of other basic services.
In December, a U.N. human rights expert accused Greece of failing to identify victims of sex trafficking in the camp.
MSF called on Greece and the EU to ensure adequate pediatric care and nutritional support in Samos and to restore financial support to asylum seekers suspended last June.
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Finnish authorities have confirmed that three people were injured in an act of violence at a school in the town of Pirkkala, located approximately 180 kilometers north of Helsinki, on Tuesday. Police said the perpetrator has been apprehended and that a search of the premises was ongoing.
A major fire that broke out at a factory producing audio and visual equipment in the Toroslar district of Mersin has been brought under control, authorities announced on Tuesday. Fortunately, no casualties have been reported, and cooling operations are ongoing.
Despite repeated round of negotiations, there is increasing doubts on whether nuclear talks between the two countries will lead to an agreement.
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The EU is debating lifting economic sanctions on Syria to support the nation's recovery while maintaining measures targeting the Assad regime.
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