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Sudan: MSF resumes outpatient nutritional program for children in Zamzam camp amid severe malnutrition crisis

Posted on 6 November 2024 (6 November 2024)

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) resumed its outpatient nutritional program in Zamzam camp, near El Fasher in North Darfur, for children suffering from acute malnutrition after receiving therapeutic food supplies this week. MSF was forced to stop outpatient treatment for 5,000 children with acute malnutrition in Zamzam camp in late September after the warring parties […]

Sudan: “Echoes of Darfur”

Posted on 4 November 2024 (4 November 2024)

One and a half years into the conflict in Sudan, refugees are still fleeing to eastern Chad in search for safety, where they arrive at camps in dire conditions. Access to clean water, sanitation and healthcare facilities is limited. We met Aziz, Youssef, Salwa, and Amina to hear their stories of fleeing the Darfur region of Sudan and survival in […]

Treating Open Wounds in Tulkarem, West Bank

Posted on 31 October 2024 (18 February 2025)

It’s a sunny morning in Nur Shams refugee camp, in Tulkarem, West Bank. Over twenty women are filing into a room set up by MSF staff, sitting in a circle and chatting over Arabic coffee. In the middle of the room, there is a table with gauze, tourniquet devices and charts explaining blood flow in […]

Detention of Dr Mohammed Obeid and several medical staff from Kamal Adwan Hospital, North Gaza

Posted on 31 October 2024 (18 February 2025)

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has received confirmation that Dr Mohammed Obeid, an MSF orthopedic surgeon, has been detained by Israeli forces along with several medical staff from Kamal Adwan hospital in north Gaza during a military operation at the hospital on 26 October. We are extremely alarmed by the detention of our colleague. […]

Speech: MSF Highlights Three Urgent Humanitarian Crises Amid Global Inaction in House of Commons meeting

Posted on 29 October 2024 (30 October 2024)

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), provides medical humanitarian care to people who have been forced to flee their homes because of violence, conflict, persecution and, increasingly, climate change. Our teams provide vital medical care at every step of people’s treacherous displacement journeys, including providing surgery and trauma care, maternal health and obstetrics services, vaccination […]

MSF denounces Israel’s ban on UNRWA, the latest devastating blow to the Palestinians

Posted on 29 October 2024 (18 February 2025)

The Israeli Knesset’s ban on UNRWA’s operations voted on Oct. 28 represents a devastating blow to Palestinian life. It will further undermine people’s survival prospects in Gaza and heavily impact communities in the West Bank. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denounces this legislation, which represents an inhumane ban on vital humanitarian aid. The Knesset’s […]

Gaza: MSF calls for safety and information on missing doctor

Posted on 28 October 2024 (18 February 2025)

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is deeply concerned for the safety and whereabouts of Dr. Mohammed Obeid, an MSF orthopedic surgeon who was sheltering and working in Kamal Adwan Hospital, northern Gaza, with whom we lost contact since the afternoon of Oct. 25. The hospital and its surroundings have been subjected to intense military operations by […]

Stories of displaced: Hundreds of thousands of people in Lebanon in search of a safe place after large-scale Israeli bombardments

Posted on 1 October 2024 (25 October 2024)

Following the large-scale Israeli bombardment in Lebanon over the past week, hundreds of thousands of Lebanese families including MSF staff, have been forced out of their houses and pushed on the roads, in a desperate search of a safe place. MSF is providing support to displaced people in shelters, like schools, in the south of […]

Q&A: A Canadian Emergency Coordinator shares the catastrophic impact of war in Sudan

Posted on 24 September 2024 (27 September 2024)

Canadian Ada Yee is an MSF emergency coordinator who has worked in over 17 countries, including Ethiopia, Syria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, and Yemen. She recently completed a four-month assignment in Sudan’s South Darfur region and shares some insight on the impact of the war in Sudan. 17 months after war broke out […]

MSF steps up humanitarian response in Lebanon, many people displaced

Posted on 24 September 2024 (25 October 2024)

Following the widescale Israeli bombings of multiple areas in Lebanon on Monday Sep. 23, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is gradually stepping up its response to the escalating humanitarian needs by delivering primary healthcare and essential relief items to the displaced population. According to the Ministry of Health, 558 people were killed and 1,835 […]

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