Dr. Tejshri Shah, Director General of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Belgium and a pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases, recently returned from North Kivu, an eastern province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the country at the epicenter of the current mpox epidemic in Africa. In this short piece, she emphasizes that containing […]
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On 13 August 2024, the Africa CDC declared the mpox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) recognised the Africa CDC’s declaration and were relieved that the World Health Organization (WHO) on 14 August declared the upsurge of mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and a […]
Esther, Rebecca, Tuliya and Daphrose are from the same family. Together, they fled the fighting between the M23 armed group and the Congolese army in North Kivu, a province in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). For the past year and a half, the four women have been living in the Elohim […]
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The Government of Canada recently issued a formal response to a petition supported by international medical organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calling on Canada to increase its humanitarian assistance for Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where millions of people are in desperate need as a result of a violent armed conflict and the […]
Marie Brun is an emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Goma, in the province of North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. She provides an update on the intensification of fighting between several armed groups, including the M23, and the Congolese armed forces since the start of the year, and the consequences […]
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Amid a daunting number of high-profile international emergencies consuming global attention in recent months, a massive humanitarian crisis has been causing widespread suffering in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over the past two years, seemingly out of sight for much of the world. Since March 2022, an estimated 1.6 million people who live near […]
As fighting displaces thousands of people in North and South Kivu, MSF is concerned about spread of disease due to overcrowded, unsanitary living conditions Two years of violent fighting between the M23 armed group and the Congolese army (FARDC) and its allies in North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) intensified late […]
Over the past two years, more than one million women, men and children have fled the ongoing fighting in the DRC’s North Kivu province. More than half of them have sought refuge near the provincial capital of Goma, with many living in inhumane conditions on improvised sites where everything is lacking: decent shelter, water, food, […]
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Ituri province, in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has been gripped for decades by recurring cycles of violence. Since mid-February there has been a resurgence of attacks, many of them targeting civilians, resulting in significant casualties, especially among women and children. In response to people’s critical medical needs in the province, in […]
In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) the humanitarian crisis has reached dramatic proportions in 2023, with massive levels of violence and displacement. In North Kivu, armed clashes linked to the resurgence of the M23 armed group have forced up to 1 million people to flee their homes. Often overshadowed, the provinces of Ituri and […]
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