Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency teams reached Jamaica last weekend and are assessing people’s immediate needs following the massive destruction from Hurricane Melissa. MSF staff are working to reach the most remote areas where people have been completely cut off due to road destruction and where regional hospitals and healthcare centres have been […]
Read More… from Jamaica: MSF response after Hurricane Melissa
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is deeply concerned by the Canadian government’s plan to reduce funding for international assistance and global health programs – especially at a time when more people than ever need urgent medical and humanitarian support. In our programs around the world, we’ve already seen first-hand how other recent cuts to […]
Read More… from MSF statement on Canada’s 2025 Federal Budget: Cuts to global aid will cost lives
During the night of Nov. 4, Russian military forces carried out strikes on Synelnykove district in Dnipropetrovsk region, hitting civilian infrastructure and private homes. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supports a hospital close to the frontline in this area, where wounded patients were brought for emergency care. An MSF team – including an anesthetist, […]
Read More… from Ukraine: Emergency response after attacks in Dnipropetrovsk region
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denounces the horrendous mass atrocities and killings, both indiscriminate and ethnically-targeted, that have culminated this week in and around El Fasher. We reiterate our fear that large numbers of people remain in grave danger and are being prevented by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allies from reaching […]
On Oct. 28, 2025, the devastating hurricane Melissa, struck Jamaica, causing flooding and widespread destruction. The hurricane then swept across Cuba on Oct. 29 and is now affecting Haiti and other countries in the region. Brice de le Vingne, head of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency unit, responds to the hurricane with the […]
Read More… from Hurricane Melissa: MSF prepares to respond in Jamaica and other countries
In Central African Republic (CAR), access to electricity remains a major challenge, hindering the development and quality of essential services, particularly in healthcare. According to the World Bank, only one in seven people in CAR has access to electricity, with stark disparities between the capital, Bangui (35 per cent), and rural areas (0.4 per cent). In […]
Read More… from Central African Republic: Solar energy in service of health
I have spent a year watching cholera, a treatable disease, chew through South Sudan. And the hardest question isn’t how to treat it – we know how. The hardest question is this: Why hasn’t the outbreak been contained? Why, one year after the outbreak was declared on Oct. 28, are we still responding to a […]
Read More… from South Sudan: Cholera crisis is a symptom of deeper failures
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) appeals for civilians’ lives to be spared in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state, and for them to be allowed to flee to safer areas. Given the ethnic-based violence spiking across Darfur for over two years, and the large-scale massacres committed in Zamzam camp for internally […]
Read More… from Sudan: Civilians must be spared in El Fasher
When Fatima Abdi Ali experienced life‑threatening complications during her seventh pregnancy, she and her husband travelled more than 125 kilometres from Ethiopia to reach Mudug regional hospital in Galkayo North, Somalia. It was the nearest facility equipped for such an emergency. On arrival, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams performed an urgent caesarean section, […]
Read More… from Somalia: Free healthcare supports mothers and children in Mudug region
One of the worst cholera outbreaks in a decade is spreading across Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but the healthcare system remains unequipped to respond to and slow down an outbreak of this scale, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns. Twenty of the country’s 26 provinces are now affected. From January to mid-October, more […]
Read More… from Democratic Republic of Congo: Cholera epidemic rapidly spreading across the country