Today, Nov. 2, the agreement on migration between the Italian and Libyan governments will automatically renew for three years. The EU-sponsored agreement has seen millions of dollars of financial and technical support given to the Libya Coast Guard, who have intercepted more than 100,000 people at sea since it was first signed in 2017, forcibly […]
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At least 22 people are missing, and a pregnant woman died despite desperate efforts to resuscitate her, following the partial sinking of a rubber boat in the central Mediterranean Sea yesterday. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s Search and Rescue team has brought 71 survivors from the flimsy sinking rubber boat on board our search and […]
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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 […]
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MSF has withdrawn its team after being repeatedly blocked by Polish authorities from accessing the forested border region.
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Since Brazil’s northern border with Venezuela was partially reopened back in July, an increasing number of migrants and asylum seekers have crossed the border to find themselves in the streets.
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After three years of providing care, MSF is handing its projects over to Premiére Urgence Internationale and calling for a stronger aid response for thousands of families on the border.
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With the deadline to close Kenya’s refugee camps just over six months away, urgency is mounting to find sustainable solutions for the refugees in the camps at Dadaab.
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Another winter season is approaching in northwest Syria, where over 2 million people, the majority of whom are women and children, remain internally displaced.
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MSF has now provided 30,000 medical consultations to the people in transit between Colombia and Panama.
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MSF search-and-rescue teams found 10 people dead yesterday on a wooden boat in the Central Mediterranean after 186 others were rescued within 24 hours.
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