Since September 2026, the military escalation between Ansar Allah forces and the internationally recognized government backed by Saudi Arabia, has plunged people back into uncertainty. More than 230,000 people have been displaced from the western coast of Yemen, seeking refuge far from the frontline amid insecurity and uncertainty about how the situation will unfold. For […]
Read More… from Yemen: Escalating conflict spurs massive displacement
The queue to collect food. Rain pouring through a tent. A tank bulldozing buildings. An omnipresent quadcopter. Friends they used to play with. Dina, Rahaf, Motassem and several other children from Gaza quietly explain the meaning of their drawings, but their stories are anything but quiet. The drawings were made during group psychosocial sessions organized […]
Read More… from Palestine: Drawing Gaza through the eyes of children
Children are paying a devastating price in the Ebola disease outbreak unfolding in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). While children face a higher risk of death from Ebola disease than adults, they also represent a significant proportion of those affected by the current outbreak. According to Epicentre, the epidemiological research centre of Doctors Without […]
Tariq Salam would sometimes spend three or four hours walking alone under the hot sun. He had become increasingly isolated, avoiding social gatherings and conversations and spending much of his time on his own. “Before treatment, things were very difficult,” says Salam. “I avoided people and preferred to be alone, sometimes walking for hours by […]
Read More… from Sudan: Mental health recovery possible, staying on treatment harder
In Ad-Damazin, Blue Nile state, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) offers mental health support at a permanent centre in Karama 6 camp and through activities at other project sites, including the malnutrition ward at Ad-Damazin hospital. People can access individual support and follow-up care, while those who need more specialized care are referred to the […]
Read More… from Sudan: A mother’s journey from isolation to recovery
On the evening of Oct. 15, Israeli settlers violently assaulted a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) colleague with a hand-sized rock launched by a slingshot during a targeted attack by settlers on his village in the south of the West Bank. Our colleague required immediate medical attention. This incident is not isolated. Over the […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has sent a mobile team to support in response to the emergence of new confirmed cases of the Bundibugyo virus in Kayna and Alimbongo, in the southern part of Lubero Territory. Following the alert regarding nine confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease in Kayna and Alimbongo on Oct. 2—an […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns Israel is progressively asphyxiating Gaza and continuing its genocide. The space in which people can live is vanishing, while the conditions needed to survive is being systematically destroyed through continued violence, the deliberate blockade of essential supplies and the destruction of healthcare and essential infrastructure. In the past […]
Read More… from Palestine: Three years on, Israel continues to asphyxiate Gaza
Following the announcement by Kenya’s Ministry of Health (MoH) of the country’s first confirmed Ebola disease case and subsequent death in Nairobi, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in close coordination with the MoH and other agencies is following the situation closely. Since the beginning of this regional outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo […]
Read More… from Kenya: First Ebola disease case reported in the country. MSF’s reaction.
More than 1,700 healthcare workers have been killed during the genocide in Gaza. Israel has detained hundreds more without charges. Doctors, nurses and paramedics who stayed to treat the wounded have themselves become casualties of this war. When medical staff are killed, imprisoned or disappear, it is not only healthcare workers who pay the price. […]
Read More… from Palestine: MSF urges release of detained Palestinian medics in Israel