In late 2024, following media reporting, MSF launched an investigation into allegations of sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment linked to humanitarian operations in eastern Chad. The investigation concluded in mid-2025. Alongside our Annual Behaviour and Accountability Reporting for 2025 — something we have been documenting for the past eight years — MSF is publishing an […]
Read More… from Eastern Chad: Investigating Abuse and Strengthening Prevention
In 2025, 65,708 individuals worked for MSF worldwide. During the year, we saw a total of 1,122 complaints about abuse or inappropriate behaviour made across the MSF movement. Of these, 1,021 were related to our medical and humanitarian projects, and 101 related to our international headquarter offices. Of those complaints, after review and investigation, 299 […]
When 13-year-old Mamouch suffered a convulsive seizure at home one night, he fell into his family’s cooking fire in their village in Lankien, Jonglei State. Since the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Lankien was bombed and destroyed in February 2026, his family had to travel more than 50 kilometres to the nearest […]
Read More… from South Sudan: When the river is the only road to healthcare
After a major flashflood struck the Rasuwa district in Nepal, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières team experienced in providing emergency responses has arrived in Nepal to assess people’s immediate needs. MSF stands ready to provide urgent humanitarian and medical assistance. The floods rapidly impacted Timure, Rasuwagadhi and Syabrubesi areas causing significant damage to settlements, […]
Read More… from Nepal: MSF assesses people’s needs after devastating flash floods in Rasuwa district
In 2020, a brutal war erupted in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Hundreds of thousands of people are thought to have been killed. Others fled in search of safety, including several thousand who reached the Um Rakuba refugee camp in neighbouring Sudan. Life in refugee camps is difficult. Those who have been displaced are cut off from […]
The cries of children fill the intensive care unit of Nilefa Kiji, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF)’s nutrition facility in Maiduguri, Borno state, Nigeria. Nurses move from bed to bed checking vital signs, dispensing therapeutic milk and reassuring anxious parents. Every child here is suffering from severe acute malnutrition, a condition that continues to […]
In the overcrowded refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar children — who make up half of the 1.3 million refugees — are arriving at medical facilities later, sicker and with complex, overlapping physical and psychological health needs. Nine years after fleeing extreme violence in Myanmar, and with international humanitarian assistance funding fast disappearing families struggle to secure […]
Almost 100 days since the Ebola disease outbreak was declared in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns that communities do not have enough support to contain the disease. This outbreak has become the largest and deadliest in the country’s history and continues to spread at an alarming rate within […]
Read More… from Democratic Republic of Congo: 100 days of Ebola disease outbreak
In Port-au-Prince, thousands of women are at risk. Seeing a doctor, obtaining contraceptives, attending prenatal check-ups or receiving care after sexual assault have all become fraught with obstacles. In a capital city where armed violence is undermining an already fragile health system, access to sexual and reproductive healthcare is becoming increasingly limited. Yet it is […]
While the response to the Ebola disease outbreak is mobilizing significant resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns of the need to maintain care and funding for other health crises in the east of the country to prevent a worsening humanitarian situation. Cholera, measles, malaria and violence […]