“I have lived through many wars, but this kind of displacement has never happened before,” says Moses, who fled his home in Lankien, Jonglei state, South Sudan, as conflict intensified. “I have never seen civilians’ homes burned to ashes on such a scale. We are now living under the trees.” An escalation of violence between […]
“I didn’t leave my apartment all winter,” says Hanna, a 97-year-old woman, who is confined to her apartment on the 11th floor of a residential building in Kyiv, Ukraine. “It was very cold at home and I was constantly shaking. I really want to stay sane after all this.” In February 2026, after repeated shelling […]
Read More… from Ukraine: Helping Kyiv’s at-risk residents through power cuts
On March 15, 2026, Israeli strikes killed 13 people and injured many more during attacks in Deir-El-Balah, Gaza, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. In response, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams treated nine patients at our field hospital. In the morning, MSF received four patients: a boy who was dead on arrival and […]
Rocío Simón Martínez, nurse activity manager with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has just finished her second assignment in Gaza, where she was among the last MSF international staff to leave in late February 2026. All our international colleagues have been forced to leave following the Israeli authorities’ decision to deregister 37 non-governmental organizations […]
Over less than two weeks, more than 800,000 people have been forced to flee their homes and towns in Lebanon, due to relentless Israeli bombings and widespread evacuation orders. These mass displacements are making people more vulnerable, including people who have not been able to return home since previous displacements. Ghina, a young person who […]
Read More… from Lebanon: Families face uncertainty under bombardment and new evacuation orders
In September 2025, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) concluded our Cross River project after three years of collaboration with the state Ministry of Health (MoH). We provided free, comprehensive healthcare to thousands of people living in Akor and Old Ndibeji, near the Nigerian-Cameroonian border. Launched in May 2022, the project supported two general healthcare […]
Read More… from Nigeria: MSF hands over Cross River project after three years of medical care
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams, together with staff from the Ukrainian Ministry of Health, provided medical assistance to patients injured during a Russian drone attack on a passenger bus in Kherson on March 11. “One of the patients is a female medical worker who was returning home from her shift when the drone […]
Read More… from Ukraine: MSF provides emergency care for bus passengers wounded in a drone attack
Hundreds of thousands of people in Akobo, Jonglei state, are facing an impossible choice as a government-forces-led offensive on the town is imminent, following evacuation orders on March 6. The number of people in the town, currently led by the opposition, includes over 17,000 who were displaced just weeks ago, in the ongoing conflict in […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is deeply concerned for the safety and wellbeing of our staff from Lankien and Pieri in South Sudan’s Jonglei state, following an escalation of violence that has caused many people to flee. On Feb. 3, the MSF hospital in Lankien was hit in an airstrike by the government of […]
Read More… from South Sudan: Dozens of MSF staff remain missing amid escalating violence in Jonglei
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is alarmed by the dramatic escalation in conflict across the Middle East region, following strikes by U.S. and Israeli forces in Iran and Iran’s subsequent retaliatory actions in several countries. MSF is adapting our programs to respond and we are closely monitoring the rapidly evolving humanitarian needs. Across the […]
Read More… from Middle East: MSF adapts programs and prepares to scale up amid escalating conflict