Janada James is part of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF’s) midwifery team in the town of Maiduguri and shares her story of how she chose her career and what it means to her. “Janada, where are you?” calls my mother. “See me mummy!” I reply. I am 12 years old. “Bring me ash! And detergent!” She […]
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Since early 2025, fighting has intensified across South Sudan in a multi-party war with shifting allegiances along ethnic, regional and political lines. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has issued an in-depth report on the impact of violence against civilians in this conflict, “They killed them while we were running.” Indiscriminate attacks on civilians and […]
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Following the official declaration of an Ebola Virus Disease outbreak by the Ministry of Health in the Democratic Republic of Congo on May 15, 2026, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is preparing to rapidly scale up our medical response in Ituri province, in the country’s northeast. On the weekend of May 9 and 10, 2026, MSF received alerts of an increased number of deaths from […]
In November 2025, Somalia’s federal government declared a national drought emergency. More than 6.5 million people, approximately one in every four Somalis, now face high levels of acute food insecurity, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). More than two million people are in IPC Phase 4, indicating extreme food gaps and a high risk […]
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As countries meet this week to discuss the progress of implementing the Immunization Agenda 2030 at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling on governments, donors and other global health stakeholders to dismantle the systemic barriers blocking timely vaccination in conflict-affected settings in order to avert preventable disease outbreaks, […]
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Javid Abdelmoneim, physician and international president of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has just completed a visit to MSF projects across Darfur*. In this interview, he shares his impressions from his visit, the critical humanitarian needs he witnessed and the situation facing civilians in what is currently one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises. You recently […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemn Israeli forces’ attacks against paramedics in Lebanon, including the recent killing of two Lebanese civil defence workers in Nabatiyeh, and reiterates our critical call for the protection of medical and rescue personnel. On May 12, 2026, a drone strike hit three paramedics as they were attempting to […]
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As geopolitical conflicts over Somalia’s strategic location and maritime corridors intensify, a humanitarian crisis is quietly worsening within the country at an alarming rate. While global security and economic interests collide in their country, millions of Somalis are living a completely different reality: prolonged drought, food insecurity and the collapse of basic healthcare. What makes […]
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For more than 24 hours, the Cité Soleil neighbourhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, has been the scene of heavy clashes between armed groups. At the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital, located in Cité Soleil, medical teams have had to cope with an influx of patients with gunshot wounds and take in more than 800 […]
Despite a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon being announced on April 17 and later renewed for three additional weeks, attacks continue in southern Lebanon. Israeli forces are conducting daily airstrikes, which have killed and injured hundreds of people. Evacuation orders continue to be issued, leading to the forced displacement of thousands of people, while the […]
Read More… from Lebanon: People still being killed by Israeli forces in the south despite ceasefire