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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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The Ebola disease outbreak in North Kivu has intensified dramatically since early September, with the province now accounting for nearly 40 per cent of all newly confirmed cases nationwide. This is up from 24 per cent at the end of August. With new hotspots emerging every week, treatment capacities remain largely insufficient and inadequate. This […]
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Cholera has existed for centuries. We know how to prevent and treat it. Yet in 2024 and 2025, Sudan endured the deadliest cholera outbreak recorded in its modern history. The disease reached all 18 states for the first time, with more than 124,000 cases and 3,500 deaths, as stated by the World Health Organization. I […]
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Two major pharmaceutical companies are currently developing therapeutic candidates for potential treatment for Ebola disease caused by the Bundibugyo virus. The virus is responsible for the ongoing outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). However, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling for greater transparency on their development, warning that past experience has shown […]
In northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is expanding our Ebola disease response as the outbreak spreads from the remote town of Nia Nia in Ituri province to Kisangani, the busy capital of neighbouring Tshopo province. In Kisangani, MSF has been running the Ebola Treatment Centre (ETC) at Cinquantenaire […]
Despite perilous conditions, regional pressure and persistent danger, Malaysia plans to return nearly 1,500 refugees to Myanmar, including Rohingya people, around Sept. 29, 2026. The move comes one year on from the United Nations-hosted High-Level Conference in New York on the situation of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar. The conference goal was to […]
The first rays of sunlight trickle through the sky at a logistics facility in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Workers wipe a thin layer of frost off cold packs and load them into a cooler that will travel by land, boat — and possibly by horse or mule — to reach its destination. Once all the supplies are packed and sealed, […]
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