Silent chronic emergencies are not a focal point of global media attention. They account for about 70 percent of all MSF projects. That's where most of the money goes. Other programs include long term development projects like surgical training and sexually transmitted disease programs. But in the last five years the nature of humanitarianism has changed drastically.
Civilian populations are now legitimate targets in war.
It is now, de facto, a legitimate act of war to force a population to starve or migrate, and to deny them basic humanitarian services. I don't think many people see it as legitimate to starve a population to death. Just look at what's actually happening. Zaire, for example, is a complex humanitarian emergency that's not over. In October of '96, a rebel movement attacked refugee camps along the Rwanda-Zaire border where the Interyhamwe and XFAR were also present.