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Palestine: A drop in the ocean. Witnessing Gaza’s medical evacuations

Posted on 9 December 2025 (9 December 2025) by Melanie

As Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) doctor, I’ve been part of 15 medical evacuations for patients coming from Gaza through Egypt and Jordan. In partnership with Swiss and EU authorities, MSF has participated in medical evacuations to Switzerland, Ireland, the UK and Spain. The official number of patients registered by the World Health Organization for medical evacuations is 16,500, but this is only a drop in the ocean. Many more patients […]

South Sudan: Gaps in healthcare threaten lives as violence escalates

Posted on 9 December 2025 (19 January 2026) by Melanie

People in South Sudan are facing a deteriorating humanitarian situation, while international interest and support continue to decline, according to a new report by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The report, “Left behind in crisis: Escalating violence and healthcare collapse in South Sudan,” shares the human impact of the faltering health system and humanitarian response. It draws on routine medical data as well as testimonies from patients, caretakers, community […]

Palestine: “These evacuations are life-changing and lifesaving”

Posted on 8 December 2025 (8 December 2025) by Melanie

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes the Swiss government’s recent medical evacuations from Gaza and urges resourceful nations to scale up their efforts to support as many patients as possible. Following two years of intense violence in Gaza, the healthcare system is destroyed. Thousands of people are suffering from complex trauma injuries caused by bullets and bombs, or from life-threatening […]

South Sudan: MSF healthcare facility hit during an airstrike

Posted on 4 December 2025 (5 December 2025) by manpreet

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 […]

Democratic Republic of Congo: MSF has launched two emergency responses in Fizi, South Kivu

Posted on 3 December 2025 (4 December 2025) by Melanie

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 […]

Egypt: Bringing medical care to Egyptian and Sudanese people in Aswan

Posted on 3 December 2025 (3 December 2025) by Melanie

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 […]

Democratic Republic of Congo: MSF calls for critical action as the humanitarian situation worsens for South Sudanese refugees

Posted on 2 December 2025 (2 December 2025) by Melanie

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 […]

Democratic Republic of Congo: Life lines, visual stories of young people living with HIV

Posted on 28 November 2025 (8 December 2025) by Melanie

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 […]

Sudan: Desperate conditions and accounts of mass violence in North Darfur

Posted on 27 November 2025 (27 November 2025) by Melanie

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 […]

Sudan: MSF calls for protection of health facilities and staff after health worker killed

Posted on 25 November 2025 (25 November 2025) by Melanie

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. […]