Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns the unacceptable harassment of its staff and the violent looting and occupation of its medical premises and supported facilities in Sudan. Staff and patients are repeatedly facing the trauma of armed groups entering and looting MSF premises with medicines, supplies and vehicles being stolen. This shocking disregard for humanitarian […]
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Ahead of the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, Dr Christos Christou, International President of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, urges the leaders of the G7 countries to make a long-term commitment to safeguarding humanitarian assistance despite highly polarized conflicts and tensions across continents. The name Hiroshima epitomizes the price that civilians pay in conflict. Although […]
By Charity Nyakio Kamau I’m a project coordinator for the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Bentiu, a camp for displaced people in South Sudan. I’m also an avid baker and winner of the Great Kenyan Bake Off, season 2. I’ve been working with MSF for a long time. I started as a […]
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Living in constant fear of eviction, seeing their homes demolished and having their movements restricted are some of the challenges faced by Palestinians in and around Masafer Yatta, in the southern West Bank of Palestine. In its new report The unbearable life: the health impacts of the Israeli measures to forcibly evict the residents of […]
In Madagascar, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are witnessing an alarming rate of malnutrition in southeastern districts where families are dealing with a triple crisis of food insecurity, malaria, and extreme weather events. Between January and April over 1,200 children under five years old suffering from severe acute malnutrition were admitted to […]
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Unprecedented numbers of malnourished children in need of lifesaving treatment are being brought to therapeutic feeding centres run by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s Borno state, in northeast Nigeria. MSF is warning of an impending catastrophe if immediate action is not taken. The number of admissions since the start of […]
The situation for migrants at the border between Nicaragua and Honduras has worsened in recent weeks. Since the beginning of March, more and more people have been crossing the borders of eastern Honduras. According to figures from Honduras National Migration Institute (INM), from January to March more than 30,000 people have entered the country irregularly […]
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Kirer Koleka is patiently standing at the back of a queue with her one-year-old daughter strapped to her back and her six-year-year old daughter by her side. Kirer and her daughters are waiting to receive an essential item, mosquito nets, required to prevent malaria which is endemic in South Sudan. Kirer and her family […]
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In September 2022, a rare variant of Ebola, the so-called Sudan strain, began spreading in Uganda. Logistician Bonnet Kamate Kihugo has worked for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) around the world for nearly 20 years, but never with Ebola. Despite this, he didn’t hesitate when asked to join the project. It has been intense. […]
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“Having consistent, quality water allows the hospital to receive patients and provide them with safe care.” Carlos, age 4, stares at a group of children not much older than him, who are bathing and playing in a stagnant water well in front of his house. The young boy lives with his family and a […]