An IPC Acute Malnutrition analysis of Mali - covering 51 administrative subdivisions and six communes of Bamako Capital District including the internally displaced people sites of four regions (Gao, Mopti, Ségou and Timbuktu) - revealed that over 1.2 million children under the age of five will likely be acutely malnourished through August 2022, due to high levels of food insecurity and diseases. This includes over 300,000 severely malnourished children in need of urgent and adequate treatment. Over 35,000 pregnant and lactating women will also likely be acutely malnourished.

This serious nutritional situation is the result of a combination of several contributing factors, mainly the poor quality of food resulting from inappropriate feeding practices of young children, recurrent food insecurity in certain areas, high rates of anemia, high prevalence of childhood diseases (particularly malaria, diarrhea and acute respiratory infections) and a resurgence of measles outbreaks. Other factors include low coverage of Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) programs, poor hygiene conditions (inaccessibility of adequate sanitation facilities), low coverage of access to drinking water and the negative impacts of inter-community conflicts and the volatile security situation in some regions.