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DRC: Insecurity and impunity force MSF to halt work in Nizi and Bambu

Posted on 29 March 2022 (2 May 2023) by jeremy

Four months after a convoy of vehicles belonging to international medical organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) came under fire by unidentified armed men in Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), MSF has announced that it will close its projects in Nizi and Bambu due to a lack of security guarantees from all […]

Bangladesh: Unprecedented increase of scabies cases in Cox’s Bazar refugee camps

Posted on 29 March 2022 (25 May 2023) by jeremy

The number of people attending Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s services in Cox’s Bazar with scabies is the highest we have seen in three years. Cases of skin diseases in 2021 were more than double those of 2019, with 73,000 people treated, and infections are continuing to climb in 2022. Almost 90 percent of […]

Afghanistan: Measles poses deadly risk for malnourished children

Posted on 28 March 2022 (2 May 2023) by jeremy

Zainab didn’t sleep well last night. The lights and the incessant beeping of the machines in the intensive care unit would keep anyone awake. But mainly she couldn’t sleep because she was worried about her one-year-old son, Takberullah. He also had a restless, irritable night as he was having trouble breathing until the doctor gave […]

MSF response to investigation into the killings of colleagues in Tigray, Ethiopia

Posted on 25 March 2022 (2 May 2023) by jeremy

Paula Gil, President of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Spain: “Today, March 17, 2022, The New York Times published an investigation into the killings of our colleagues María Hernández, Tedros Gebremariam, and Yohannes Halefom in Tigray, Ethiopia, on June 24, 2021. The story places responsibility for the killings on the Ethiopian National Defense Force […]

One couple’s story, from fleeing violence in DRC to giving birth in the Panamanian rainforest

Posted on 23 March 2022 (2 May 2023) by jeremy

Mimi and Paty were married in their home region of Maniema, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Now 42, Paty is an electromechanical engineer and video cameraman, while Mimi, 35, is a professor of Islamic theology who did her studies in Iran. After living through years of ethnic violence in Maniema, they finally made […]