melanie, Author at Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...

Mexico: Increased risks for migrants following closure of U.S. asylum process

Posted on 24 January 2025 (24 January 2025)

The recent executive orders on migration from the U.S. administration leave hundreds of thousands of people along the Latin American migration corridor in even greater uncertainty, exposed to heightened risks on a route already marked by extreme violence, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today. Our teams in Mexico are already witnessing the harmful […]

Haiti: MSF announces the reopening of its emergency centre in Turgeau, Port-au-Prince

Posted on 24 January 2025 (28 January 2025)

In a fragile context for hospitals and ambulances, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is committed to the resumption of medical activities at the Emergency and Referral Centre in Turgeau, a neighbourhood near downtown Port-au-Prince. At 8 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, the facility at 34 Avenue Charles Summer in Turgeau resumed its activities […]

Gaza: At long last, a temporary ceasefire

Posted on 24 January 2025 (18 February 2025)

“Since more than 400 days, we didn’t hear any kind of celebration, singing, dancing. Gaza, yesterday at night, started to celebrate, to sing, children in the streets, you can hear them singing songs.” My colleague, Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, a physician who works for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Gaza, said these words after […]

MSF mourns the killing of its ninth colleague in Gaza

Posted on 24 January 2025 (18 February 2025)

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is devastated to report the death of Bilal Okal, our colleague killed by Israeli forces in Jabalia, North Gaza, along with 10 of his family members. Bilal and his relatives, including his wife, seven children, his sister and his elderly mother, were killed by an Israeli airstrike in December […]

Eastern Chad: First baby born in 2025 in MSF clinic at Aboutenege camp

Posted on 21 January 2025 (7 May 2025)

“My name is Rachida Mahamat. I am a Sudanese refugee in eastern Chad. Since the beginning of my pregnancy, I have been attending antenatal consultations with the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team in Aboutengue camp. I visited the clinic five times and was given information about the progress of my pregnancy. I was […]

Gaza: “The destruction is abnormal, catastrophic, as if a nuclear bomb had hit the area. It’s a sight that cannot be described.”

Posted on 20 January 2025 (18 February 2025)

Mustafa Hassan Abu Hamada and his family were living in Jabalia camp in northern Gaza during the recent brutal Israeli military siege, which has left the city completely destroyed and killed and injured countless civilians, including Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff. “People in front of us tried to escape at the Al-Awda junction, […]

“I love my patients”

Posted on 20 January 2025 (21 January 2025)

Mary* is a three-year-old girl who comes to the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital with severe burns. Her grandmother, who brought her, tells us Mary fell into a bucket of hot water. The burns cover her arms, chest and part of her head. The first time I see her, she is crying in […]

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North Kivu, DRC: Masisi General Referral Hospital hit again by gunfire leaving two MSF staff slightly injured

Posted on 20 January 2025 (20 January 2025)

On Sunday, Jan. 19, two Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) workers were slightly injured when a rocket hit the MSF garage next to the Masisi General Referral Hospital (HGR) in the town of Masisi, North Kivu. On the same day, another rocket hit a latrine near the hospital. The hospital and the MSF staff […]

Temporary ceasefire in Gaza: Immense scale-up of life-saving aid must flow now

Posted on 18 January 2025 (18 February 2025)

The temporary ceasefire agreement in Gaza is a relief, but it arrives more than 465 days and 46,000 lives too late. While this temporary cessation of fighting and bombing must be both respected and long-term, this is only the beginning in addressing the immense humanitarian, psychological, and medical needs in Gaza. Israel must immediately end […]

South Sudan: MSF strongly condemns armed attack on health care workers in Nasir County

Posted on 16 January 2025 (23 January 2025)

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the armed attack on two of our clearly marked boats on the afternoon of Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, in Upper Nile State, South Sudan. The boats carrying six of our team members were sailing on the river back to Ulang after delivering essential medical supplies to Nasir […]

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