On the morning of Dec. 3, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) healthcare facility was hit during an airstrike in the town of Pieri, Jonglei state. After the gunship helicopter left, MSF teams found bullets that hit the facility. MSF teams witnessed additional airstrikes in Lankien, where MSF also runs healthcare facilities, but without […]
Read More… from South Sudan: MSF healthcare facility hit during an airstrike
Faced with the critical needs of people who have been displaced by the latest escalation in fighting in Fizi territory, South Kivu, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched two joint emergency responses for malaria and cholera. The situation has been made worse by the departure of several organizations after cuts to international humanitarian funding and health services. Between August […]
Khaled* sits in the corner of the waiting room, with his United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees registration card in one hand and a little plastic bag full of empty medication packets in the other. This is his third visit to a clinic in Daraw, receiving treatment for his chronic illness. “We had a comfortable life in Sudan and leaving it […]
Read More… from Egypt: Bringing medical care to Egyptian and Sudanese people in Aswan
More than 45,000 South Sudanese refugees have crossed into Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since April 2025, fleeing escalating violence in their home country. Most are now living in the Adi health zone, in northeastern Ituri. Among them is Sanya Nghota, who escaped with 13 of his family members. “We fled because of the war and killings that took place in our village,” he says. “Everyone fled our […]
Through fifty photographs, ten young people share their daily lives, hopes and challenges, offering a rare and intimate perspective on a reality often kept invisible. This exhibition is based on anthropological research conducted in 2024 within four HIV+ youth clubs in Kinshasa, supported by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Jeunesse Espoir. These clubs offer medical and […]
After witnessing the deaths of his wife and daughter in the middle of bombings in El Fasher, AM* set out on a grueling journey toward Tawila, 60 kilometres away, on Oct. 27. He and his remaining family members spent four agonizing days walking on foot, in which they endured torture, beatings and robbery. Along the way, in the village of Garni, he had to bury his niece, a young girl who […]
Read More… from Sudan: Desperate conditions and accounts of mass violence in North Darfur
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is mourning the death of a Ministry of Health (MoH) colleague at Zalingei hospital in Central Darfur on Nov. 18. We call once again for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to guarantee the protection of health facilities and staff. MSF extends our deepest condolences to the family of the MoH stretcher-bearer who was killed in the shooting outside Zalingei hospital, which also left four people wounded. […]
When the category five Hurricane Melissa struck Jamaica on Oct. 27, it severely damaged health infrastructure and medical supply chains in St. James parish. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency medical and logistical teams quickly responded to the disaster. Working closely with Jamaican emergency relief and health authorities, MSF teams are helping resupply much needed medical equipment, supplies and drugs in both urban and rural areas. Many rural communities are still without electricity […]
Read More… from Jamaica: Hurricane Melissa leaves health system severely damaged
This week’s replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria offered the first test of whether Canada is still willing to stand up for humanity since the government passed a federal budget that singles out global health for cuts as it slashes billions of dollars in international assistance. MSF is deeply disappointed […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denounces yet more bloodshed in Gaza, as our teams continue to treat critically wounded Palestinians caused by Israeli airstrikes and quadcopters on Nov. 19, which have left dozens dead and many more injured. Since Wednesday, our teams have treated both women and children with open fractures and gunshot wounds to their limbs and head. “At around […]